CenterPoint Energy : restores power to 122,000 customers impacted by overnight and early morning storms across the Greater Houston area

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2026-05-27T05:00:00Z CenterPoint restores customers impacted by severe overnight thunderstorms, on average, in less than 100 minutes​ CenterPoint has returned to normal operations and the Emergency Operations Center has been demobilized HOUSTON - May 27, 2026 - CenterPoint has taken action to restore power to 122,000 customers impacted by the overnight and early morning thunderstorms across the Greater Houston area with an average restoration time of approximately 100 minutes. While crews are continuing to work to restore power safely and as quickly as possible, CenterPoint's Emergency Operations Center has been demobilized and electric business has returned to normal operations. "Our customers expect and deserve reliable power, and our teams worked around the clock through significant rainfall to safely and quickly restore service to customers who were impacted by the severe storms. We will continue to prioritize restoring power to the remaining impacted customers, many of whom live in areas that experienced significant weather-related damage, until service has been returned to all of our customers in the Greater Houston area," said Jason Fabre, CenterPoint's Vice President of Special Response and Incident Commander. Restoration & Response Actions (as of 5 p.m.) CenterPoint's response today followed thunderstorms moving through parts of the Greater Houston area in the early morning hours, with the strongest activity taking place between 2 and 3 a.m. The scope of CenterPoint's storm response and restoration includes the following actions: Approximately 2,000 CenterPoint frontline workers and contractors have restored approximately 122,000 customers since storms arrived around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning. More than 99% of all CenterPoint electric customers currently have power. Since 1 a.m. Wednesday, more than 162,000 Power Alert Service® messages have been shared directly with customers. Across our network of 150 weather stations, we recorded the following with Wednesday's severe thunderstorms: Isolated strong wind gusts of up to 48 mph ​​Widespread winds up to 38 mph ​​​​Isolated rainfall totals of up to 2.65 inches Approximately 6,000 lightning strikes between 12 a.m. and 5 a.m. across Houston were recorded via a third-party (Vaisala)​​Important ways to stay connected to CenterPoint: Power Alert Service Customers can enroll in the company's Power Aler...

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