Popular Media

Regulation and Utility Performance

Last week’s outages in Houston due to Hurricane Beryl were agonizing and frustrating. The Category 1 hurricane made landfall on July 8 and maintained hurricane strength until it reached Houston, delivering 10-15 inches of rain in some areas and resulting in 2.7 million power outages in the region. Four days later, over one million customers were still without power. Today, nine days after the storm hit Houston, 40,000 customers still don’t have power.

Read the full piece here.