Fallout continues over Beryl energy crisis, energy company CEO testifies in Texas Senate hearing

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Fallout continues in Texas from the deadly energy crisis that started after Hurricane Beryl. CenterPoint Energy, is being questioned in Austin about the…

The company at the center of it all, CenterPoint Energy, is being grilled by Texas lawmakers in Austin about the response, as a state-ordered investigation continuesIt has been three weeks since Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas and the fallout continues from the deadly energy crisis in Texas.Beryl made landfall on July 8 and in the days that followed, more than 2.5 million people lost power in the Houston region.

At least 23 people died from the storm itself and the ensuing outages that lasted nearly two weeks for some,Critics have questioned whether CenterPoint cut corners with maintaining trees, if they were prepared with enough workers, and if their resources were updated to industry standards. The Public Utility Commission of Texas has since launched an investigation into what happened. Last week, CenterPoint executives gave a public apology during the PUC’s monthly meeting, outlining all the improvements they plan to make.On Monday, he is testifying in a special committee hearing in the Texas Senate in Austin, along with the Houston mayor John Whitmire. The hearing started at 10 a.m.

The company has also been asked to provide Abbott with a full report on what went wrong during Beryl by the end of the year.

 

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