Houston CenterPoint map shows power restoration progress

HOUSTON — CenterPoint issued an update Tuesday evening on the progress of restoring power to the Houston area following Hurricane Beryl.

They said more than a third of customers had their power restored within 30 hours of Beryl moving through southeast Texas.

They also said they were confident they could meet their estimate of restoring 1 million customers within 48 hours of the storm leaving the area.

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“We’ve made solid progress and surpassed the number of restorations our customers completed after Hurricane Ike, but we still have much important work to do, particularly in the hardest-hit areas where the work will be more complex and time-consuming,” said Lynnae Wilson, senior vice president of Electric Business. “We know many customers are counting on us to complete our work as safely and quickly as possible, and that will continue to be our top priority.”

CenterPoint said 2.26 million customers were affected by Beryl and as of 8 p.m. Tuesday, they had restored power to more than 850,000 of them.

The power company also announced that it has released a new map showing progress in restoration efforts.

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According to CenterPoint, the color-coded restoration tracker explains their power restoration process.

• Orange areas indicate locations where CenterPoint is still assessing damage
• Blue areas indicate where crews have been assigned to restore power
• Green areas are where CenterPoint indicates that fuse repairs are complete, but isolated outages in individual homes may still persist.

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CenterPoint’s other outage tracking map has been down since the May derecho. When KHOU 11 News asked how soon that outage map would be fixed, CenterPoint said it would be fixed by the end of July and would be redesigned.