CenterPoint CEO Jason Wells testifies before the Texas Senate Committee on hurricane and tropical storm preparedness, recovery and electricity on Monday.The powers that be appeared to be playing tricks in a Monday Senate special committee hearing on hurricane and tropical storm preparedness, recovery and electricity, as the live stream cut out before CenterPoint Energy CEO Jason Wells was set to testify.
Whitmire took issue with the utility company’s lack of preparation before Hurricane Beryl and botched response after the storm knocked out power for more than two million of its customers, some of whom remained without for roughly two weeks. Senator Paul Bettencourt refused to back down when he grilled Wells about the tool. Bettencourt referred to CenterPoint’s manually-updated version as the “single-most double dumbass decision” he had ever seen a utility corporation make.
Wells added that the utility company currently relies on outsourcing crews. He could not provide more information regarding reports investigated by several media outlets brought up by Alvarado of crew members waiting hours in parking lots for work assignments.