Energy companies starting resiliency initiatives are all the rage in Texas, apparently. Six months after CenterPoint Energy launched its project to improve its work in the greater Houston area, Entergy's plan to strengthen its portion of Texas' grid network is about to get off the ground.
Though ERCOT doesn't expect to issue outages, some could occur in the Houston area if icy conditions materialize, CenterPoint Energy said.
More than 99% of CenterPoint Energy's Houston-area customers maintained power through the freeze, and ERCOT didn't order rolling outages.
A local energy expert, meanwhile, says other factors also contributed to relatively few power outages as snow blanketed the region on Tuesday and temperatures plunged into the teens early Wednesday morning.
The same happened recently after Hurricane Beryl ravaged parts of southeast Texas. ABC13 has reached out to CenterPoint Energy for their plan with the upcoming freeze.
According to a release sent out on Saturday, CenterPoint has around 1,200 mutual aid workers who will be in the area by Monday to support any efforts to bring the lights back on. Workers will be staged at three different spots and pre-positioned to move into affected areas.
CenterPoint Energy said Jan. 22 it successfully maintained normal electric service throughout extreme weather during Winter Storm Enzo for roughly 99 percent of its Greater Houston area customers. “With Winter Storm Enzo now behind us,
The good thing is, CenterPoint is reporting thousands of customers' power restored in the last 24 hours compared to how many outages they've seen.
We continue to track the weather and freezing temperatures. With a possible hard freeze tomorrow morning, CenterPoint spokesperson Michelle Hundley talks about CenterPoint's operations today.
The company is expecting 1,200 additional mutual aid workers to arrive Monday, doubling its response workforce.
CenterPoint Energy is proactively preparing for a significant winter storm expected to impact the Greater Houston area starting Monday evening.
CenterPoint said a brief outage impacted about 3,000 customers on Galveston's West End, who eventually got their power restored.