As Tropical Storm Beryl impacts greater Houston Monday morning, a critical local resource on power outages and restoration timelines remains unavailable: the Outage Tracker operated by CenterPoint Energy, the city’s primary electricity provider.
This comes as more than 2.1 million of its customers are without power, the utility company reported as of 10:55 a.m. Monday. CenterPoint said it has its own repair crews, as well as neighboring support crews, ready to begin restoring power when it is safe.
CenterPoint’s Outage Tracker, a map of the Houston metro area that highlights areas affected by electrical outages, has been offline since May due to “technical difficulties” caused by the derecho that swept…
