{"id":835706,"date":"2025-04-09T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/greater-houston-resiliency-initiative-phase-two-update-centerpoint-energy-completes-70-of-critical-resiliency-work-around-houston-to-prepare-for-the-2025-hurricane-season\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:55:50","slug":"greater-houston-resiliency-initiative-phase-two-update-centerpoint-energy-completes-70-of-critical-resiliency-work-around-houston-to-prepare-for-the-2025-hurricane-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/greater-houston-resiliency-initiative-phase-two-update-centerpoint-energy-completes-70-of-critical-resiliency-work-around-houston-to-prepare-for-the-2025-hurricane-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Houston Resiliency Initiative Phase Two update: CenterPoint Energy completes 70% of critical resiliency work around Houston to prepare for the 2025 Hurricane Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n In just seven months, CenterPoint has completed 350 miles of targeted undergrounding; installed 17,500+ stronger, more storm-resilient poles; cleared 2,900+ miles of higher-risk vegetation; and placed 3,380+ automated reliability devices to improve grid resiliency<\/i>\n <\/p>\n

\n Historic suite of Greater Houston Resiliency Initiative actions will improve customer reliability by reducing outages by more than 125 million minutes annually<\/i>\n <\/p>\n

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\n <\/span>, April 9, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ — Today, CenterPoint Energy released its latest progress update on the second phase of the Greater Houston Resiliency Initiative (GHRI), announcing that approximately 70 percent of this historic resiliency work is now complete and that all GHRI-related actions are expected to be complete before the official start of the 2025 hurricane season.<\/p>\n

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Since announcing the second phase of GHRI last fall, the company has prioritized a broad suite of resiliency actions, including adding thousands more automation devices capable of self-healing; clearing higher-risk vegetation across thousands of more miles of power lines; installing thousands of stronger, more storm-resistant poles; and undergrounding hundreds of miles of power lines. When complete, CenterPoint’s GHRI efforts will improve overall grid resiliency and reliability and are estimated to reduce outages for customers by more than 125 million minutes annually.<\/p>\n

Among CenterPoint’s upcoming GHRI resiliency achievements are: undergrounding the 350th mile of power lines to help improve resiliency and reduce the risk of outages, and beginning the installation of the first of 100 new local weather monitoring stations by June 1<\/span> to improve situational awareness and storm preparation across Greater Houston<\/span>.<\/p>\n

“Our entire CenterPoint Houston Electric team is focused on completing this historic suite of grid resiliency actions before the start of hurricane season. That is our goal, and we will achieve it. To date, we have made significant progress as part of this historic effort, including undergrounding power lines, installing new poles, clearing hazardous vegetation and installing automation devices to reduce the impact of future storms and hurricanes.” said Darin Carroll<\/span>, Senior Vice President of CenterPoint’s Electric Business, “We will continue to work every day to complete these critical improvements as part of our company’s goal of building the most resilient coastal grid in the country.”<\/p>\n

\n GHRI Progress Update: Undergrounding more than 85% complete
<\/b>Since CenterPoint launched Phase Two of the GHRI<\/a> in September 2024<\/span>, the company has made progress across an array of resiliency goals, including undergrounding nearly 350 miles of power lines to date, which is more than 85 percent toward its target of 400 miles.<\/p>\n

In March alone, CenterPoint:<\/p>\n