13 Investigates gets inside look power poles of the 'future'

Resilient Structures says the company's composite poles that it previously sold to CenterPoint are still standing after Hurricane Beryl.

[trvrsln]

Unless they make the lines indestructible, it won’t help much.

[john]

Where is the investigation on who in Government is being funded by Centerpoint?

[JohnBaptist-of]

Our neighborhood in Spring TX just had these installed last year. All held up great during Beryl, however, the cause of the outages in our neighborhood was not snapped / downed poles but large old trees inside the easement line that fell on distribution lines. These poles will be useless in Houston where we love our overgrown pine / oak trees. I smell concurrent fines coming to homeowners to compensate for this shortcoming.

[marsflee]

Old technology-- electric wires out in the open.

[ronbennett]

Buying the lines is what they should be doing. Not putting up more outdated infrastructure. Also, adding more redundancy. Very often only a single line feeds a neighborhood or even large shopping centers.

[someutubchannel]

So ... Power more expensive...
Because they will not cut on their PROFITS!
NO, NO, NO ... DON'T TOUCH THE PROFIT$ ....

[magicsaint]

Maybe China can make this for half the cost.

[screwvo]

So they been had these for a minute now and waited till now to bring it out lol

[Rich_EDC]

So its the people that suffered and now the people that will pay. While centerpoint doing interviews in a black log sleeve cuz his office little chilly con queso

[NDB]

Those poles can still come down during storms.

[KBear]

Yes I've seen a lot of those poles being installed.

[SuperMaosy]

'new' pole will protect our power... hell, it cannot be even be protected from carved graffiti 🤔

[midengineZ]

The question is does it make financial sense??? If it's going to cost us an arm and a leg to pay our electric bill. Sounds very questionable need more proof