CenterPoint Energy reported about 195,000 customers remained without power, as of 5 p.m. Monday.
CenterPoint Energy reported about 195,000 customers remained without power, as of 5 p.m. Monday.HOUSTON, Texas -- CenterPoint Energy fell below the 200,000-outage mark Monday afternoon. By day's end, the company expects 90% of the 2.
2 million impacted customers to be restored a week after Hurricane Beryl's landfall in Houston. It has been the same tune for many families in the seven days since the storm, with households growing impatient that their lights and air conditioning remained off.the company labels the area as energized with potential localized outages, otherwise categorized as nested outages.SEE MORE:Just like May's report, CenterPoint Energy explained what's happening in a statement Monday: "There might be several reasons why some customers may have their power restored while others nearby are still without power. One reason could be a 'nested outage.' A nested outage occurs when, even after fixing the main issue, other isolated issues, such as damage to fuses, transformers, meters, electric lines, or other electric infrastructure, cause continued outages in specific areas. These secondary issues can arise from unseen damage or overloaded systems. Another reason could be that customers on the same street or neighborhood might be on different electric circuits. Customers on different circuits can experience varied restoration times because each circuit may have different levels of damage or may be repaired in a different sequence. This means that while one circuit is fully restored, another might still be undergoing repairs. The restoration map reflects a circuit-level outage. Therefore, a customer who is still out on a circuit showing green might be experiencing a more localized issue. Customers enrolled in Power Alert Service are receiving individual restoration alerts as their power is restored. We continue to assess our system and update the information regularly. A circuit-level outage generally includes locations with more than 100 customers impacted. If your grocery stores, streetlights and surrounding neighborhoods are without power, the problem may be at the circuit level.""These crews have walked more than 8,500 miles of electric lines, removed nearly 19,000 weakened trees impacting lines, repaired or replaced more than 2,100 poles, and deployed 28 mobile generation units to temporarily restore to cooling centers, hospitals, senior living facilities, and water treatment plants," the company said. Despite the effort, CenterPoint representatives have yet to say when lights should be back on for those still in the dark. Eyewitness News is waiting to hear back about an idea on reliable timing.
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