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CenterPoint adds hundreds of workers to respond to winter weather ...
Company readies 3,300-person workforce and emergency center, staging crews and equipment to mitigate potential winter storm outages.
- CenterPoint Energy activated the Emergency Operations Center Wednesday morning and secured more than 600 additional frontline workers, expanding its workforce to about 3,300 to address the winter storm.
- CenterPoint Energy is ramping up staffing and resources ahead of a winter storm forecast to impact the Greater Houston area this weekend, with crews performing pre-storm checks and extra tree trimming to mitigate ice buildup threats.
- Inspecting and testing 270 substations, CenterPoint installed heaters to prevent ice build-up, positioned compressed natural gas trucks at 14 locations, monitored more than 100 weather stations, and completed over 19,000 hours of emergency training in 2025.
- On Thursday, CenterPoint will open three staging sites across northern portion of its Houston service territory, with two sites hosting crews, vehicles and equipment where impacts are forecast strongest.
- With upgrades since 2021, officials say the grid is more resilient as Governor Greg Abbott said, `I'm very confident that there's not going to be a challenge to the power grid` and ERCOT agreed; Daniel Cohan highlighted upgraded water intakes to prevent freezing.
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CenterPoint Energy ramps up customer communications as 3,300-person expanded workforce continues preparations and emergency response efforts ahead of winter weather system forecasted to impact Texas
Approximately 3,300 CenterPoint employees and contract workers supporting storm preparation and potential restoration efforts across Houston and parts of Southeast Texas
CenterPoint says they've added hundreds of workers to respond to the Houston area's winter weather
CenterPoint Energy said Wednesday night that they've added hundreds of workers ready to respond to power outages in the Houston area from an expected winter storm.
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CenterPoint Energy Prepares for Weekend Winter Weather, Secures Additional Frontline Workers as ERCOT Issues Weather Watch and Texas Declares State of Emergency
The company has secured more than 600 additional frontline workers, bringing the total workforce available for storm response to approximately 3,300 employees and contractors....
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