Factbox: In Texas, Over 1 Million Customers Still Without Power After Hurricane Beryl
By Reuters
July 13, 2024 at 11:00:00 AM
Marguerite Thomas lights candles at dusk after losing electricity due to Hurricane Beryl in Surfside Beach, Texas, U.S., July 9, 2024. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
FILE PHOTO: Seby Godinho, 50 and Jack Souza, 52, run a convenience store without electricity in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl in Oyster Creek, Texas, U.S., July 9, 2024. REUTERS/Adrees Latif/File Photo
(Reuters) - More than 1 million homes and businesses in Texas were still without power early on Friday, after Hurricane Beryl slammed through the region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
The number was down from a peak of close to 2.7 million homes and businesses without power on Monday, when Beryl made landfall near the coastal town of Matagorda.
Provider Centerpoint Energy said it has restored power to over 1 million customers of the 2.26 million impacted.
Here are the major outages by utility:
Power Companies Outages
CenterPoint Energy 877,414
Entergy 79,774
Texas New Mexico Power 47,798
Sam Houston Electric Cooperative 18,978
AEP - Texas 947
Oncor 306
MidSouth Electric Cooperative 25
Total Out
1,025,242
(Reporting by Seher Dareen, Rahul Paswan, Anushree Mukherjee, Sherin Elizabeth and Daksh Grover in Bengaluru; Editing by Susan Fenton)
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