Lawsuit claims to show CenterPoint has one of country's least reliable power grids

The lawsuit cites research that claims to show CenterPoint failed to prepare its system for a storm like Beryl.

[johnmarine]

Over 30 years living in Texas and I've never seen something so embarrassing as the way centerpoint fails at the most basic things.

[Iamadroid]

Awesome. Some lawyers will get richer and some people will get $5 checks for their spoiled food!

[MagicEye]

i think the question is not why they have the least reliable power grid, but who let them get away with it.

[Me]

No worries… CenterPoint executives will still get their huge year end bonuses.

[RyleyRichardson-rs]

maybe dont show the truck in the thumbnail. show the executives and the politicians and the outdated equipment they insist on keeping around

[soccerpc]

It’s not just the food.

We had to relocate 2 hours away and pay for a hotel due to the heat. My family wouldn’t have been able to stay home during 5 days in the Texas heat without serious medical concerns. The food sucks. Not nearly as expensive as the forced evacuation from a poor grid infrastructure

[arthurfoyt]

Let me guess, LAWYERS will get $150 million dollars and people who join the lawsuit will get $27 each.

[judyandfriends]

We pay more for electricity than other places in the country but have the worst service. That's what deregulation does.

[streetsmartintelligent]

In the woodlands, magnolia, conroe-montgomery area. We've been experiencing power outages for years & years, from NO BAD WEATHER AT ALL, everytime it pours down rain, or thunder we sweat it.

Even on clear SUNNY days We've had power outages, BUT WE HAVE "ENTERGY", electric.. not sure if they are all connected ie...centerpoint, reliant or not.

But i know since 2010, ive lost all my food 5 times, blew out a wall plug, fried a frigerator in garage... each time when calling PUC, PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION in Austin to file a complaint, nothing was done, NADA!!!

After many calls-complaints by residents, actually received a call from a claims department within ENTERGY (years later) stating they could do nothing about it...

I then said, well we're not done, All these trees leaning towards the roads, all these trees leaning on your power lines, IS YOUR RESPONSIBILTY, so you either get these trees cut down, or youll be facing worse charges when trees fall on a moving car, or just someone walking.

I had checked to see if WE residents out here back in 2010 could just go with another electric company, (Power to Choose 😅 what a joke).

Entergy is the ONLY ONE in our area we can use, found out they signed into a 100 year contract a long time ago..

So besides Centerpoints CEO issues, i do believe HOUSTON, does have (The power to choose) electric providers...so switch to another...

We should have the same rights, i dont care if a provider wrote into a thousand year contract, if your not getting the services your paying for, what the hell is wrong with our country!!!

[TangentOmega]

Question is why does Abbott and the Texas Legislature keep getting reelected when they obviously care more about making their rich oil friends happy than protecting the infrastructure of their state? Don't expect anything to change.

[kaya]

this lawsuit on spoiled food does not make sense. Centerpoint can pay $500 per household and for 1000 household it is only 500, 000. It is nothing for them since they are earning billions. Lawsuit should be from people losing relatives and should be like 500M or more in damages

[MakingItHappenMWC]

Of course it is. I've lost power 3 times this week. I'm 47. I've never had power go out 3 times in a week in my whole life. This is becoming intentional.

[jayp-kizo]

Stop voting for such horrible governors may?

[DavidDavidunderthebridgeChampi]

One of the problems with Centerpoint is very much shown by their failure to do basic things.
For over 2 years, our local Rural Electric has been working on clearing power lines and repairing/replacing key poles.
Our repairmen went to help them. The way things are going perhaps they should return to Central Texas.

[FelonyVideos]

I basically grew up in Houston. For the first 40 years, it basically took a hurricane to put the lights out. Now, the electricity goes off all the time, multiple times a year.

Inddustry cannot tolerate power outages like this. This is why many third world countries cannot attract industry - their electrical grids are not reliable enough.

Wait till businesses begin leaving. Once that starts, its too late to stop it or reverse it. Houston will become Detroit 2.0.

[MrNeilTV]

Honestly, I don’t understand how CenterPoint hasn’t been under federal investigation.

[CCCC-tqyo]

What about the huge gas bill from running your generator

[w.d.gaster]

Center point needs to go! The city hast to come up with a better plan, and a qualifying company that does not neglect their customers that pay them a fortune. This isn’t the first time that Center point has neglected their customers. I last year had vegetation, which is still all over my lines hanging to my house. I called Center point. They came out here and it said that it was nothing to do with the equipment that it belong on the homeowner and the house. I had electrician paid to come out here to find out that it had nothing to do with the house that it was actually Center point equipment on one of their polls was disconnected and torn, because the vegetation and me and my family was actually getting shocked through faucets, and everything that we touched in the house

[JAYgonzalez-lx]

The lady talking about the PTDS over Centerpoint is no joke. A bad storm in 2008 left my area (Clear Lake) without power for i think it was 7 days. these years later i have mild PTSD over it. Anytime the power goes out! All true, all Centerpoint!!!!

[dsbranch]

Speaking with the out of state linemen working my neighborhood, the supervisor remarked that the Houston infrastructure was the third worse they have encountered over the years.