With thousands of Houstonians still without power, ABC13 is getting a clearer picture of what the outages are costing us all.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 10:54PMAfter nearly a million in southeast Texas lost power from last week's storms, energy experts said the restoration costs won't be cheap, and even if you never lost your lights, you could be paying for it.CenterPoint Energy said 7,000 utility crews are racing to get power back for more than 100,000 across southeast Texas. One of the places still in the dark is a north Houston neighborhood.
"This was a fairly large storm," Kinchen said. "We still have a large number of people without electricity. So, I'm assuming there's going to be some level of uplift, but depending on the timing and how much money that was, we aren't sure what the impact will be to our bills yet." It's an issue some neighborhoods don't have because their lines are underground. If yours are above, Kinchen said not to expect a switch anytime soon.
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