Stocks Abbott Demand Answers From CenterPoint As 260,000 Texans Still Without Power
Abbott Demand Answers From CenterPoint As 260,000 Texans Still Without Power Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demanded that utility firm CenterPoint Energy outline the steps it has taken to address power supply outages during extreme weather events, as hundreds of thousands of customers remain without electricity following Hurricane Beryl. The hurricane hit southern Texas and Houston last week and disrupted the power supply to millions of customers, leaving people without air conditioning amid high temperatures. Though supply has been restored for many households, hundreds of thousands of residents remain without power. Mr. Abbott criticized power companies during a July 14 press conference, calling the utility firms’ failure to provide power to customers “unacceptable.” He specifically highlighted CenterPoint’s outage. More than 289,000 households in Texas were out of power as of 09:45 a.m. ET on Monday, out of which over 262,000 (approx. 90 percent) were CenterPoint customers. “To help Texans in the Greater Houston area and to avoid a repeat of unacceptable power outages, I will give CenterPoint until the end of the month to provide my office with specific actions to address power outages and reduce the possibility that power will be lost during a severe weather event,” Gov.
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