Nearly 350,000 homes and businesses are still without power in the Houston area almost a week after Hurricane Beryl hit Texas.
“Power companies along the Gulf Coast must be prepared to deal with hurricanes, to state the obvious,” Abbott said at his first news conference about Beryl.on Sunday said he's demanding an investigation into the response of the utility that serves the area as well as answers about its preparations for upcoming storms.
While CenterPoint Energy has restored power to about 1.9 million customers since the storm hit on July 8, the slow pace of recovery has put the utility, which provides electricity to the nation’s fourth-largest city, under mounting scrutiny over whether it was sufficiently prepared for the storm that left people without air conditioning in the searing summer heat.
CenterPoint, which didn't immediately respond to a request for comment following the governor's news conference, said in a Sunday news release that it expected power to be restored to 90% of its customers by the end of the day on Monday.
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