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Tens of thousands CenterPoint customers were without power on one of the coldest mornings of the season. Most of the outages were located in northern Harris County.
CenterPoint Energy told KTRH in a press release that the outages where due to a "equipment issue" that was encountered by work crews who where performing equipment upgrades.
They said, "While conducting planned upgrade work this morning around 7:30 a.m., CenterPoint workers encountered an equipment issue which resulted in a temporary outage impacting about 30,000 customers. This outage lasted less than an hour for most customers and crews continued safely repairing and restoring customers as quickly as possible. As of 9:00 a.m. all customers impacted by this outage have been restored. 99.8% of CenterPoint's 2.9 million customers in the Greater Houston area did not experience any interruption in service. We appreciate customers’ patience and again apologize for the inconvenience."
You can track the outages HERE. The issue, whatever it was, seems to have been resolved