Day 5 "Off-Grid" (no power 77077) We still have -late 19th Century technology- electric poles for cables on rural areas and cities, exposed transformers and unprotected generators (from air, rain and winter)... I am not sure if ERCOT includes every company that owns the infrastructure in Texas, but they have had plenty of time to rebuild, modernize and ultimately develop a network that has the capacity to supply the growing demand and a reliable grid across our State. My comments are not about "bashing" or calling for people to be fired... the intention is to instill in the companies the will to Build systems with the high-quality that American ingenuity and American products used to have.. ● A few years ago, more than 70 people died during a winter storm. Generators, transformers and cabling could not cope with temperature and ice... The same thing can happen on sunny weather with the existing infrastructure. Our governor and officials sent "thoughts and prayers" and a promise to push electric companies under ERCOT to update the grid. After his reelection, Texas is still waiting ☆☆☆🇺🇲☆☆☆
It’s important to hear this because he shows how the gov is lying and meteorologist is in accurate the winds were stronger than cat 2 in Houston which they told us was tropical storm winds on the news. Fam that works for centpoint told me they told them I was cat 3-4 winds when we got hit. Forecast has been inaccurate as you can see lately in house they say it’s going to rain and it doesn’t or they say it 10% rain and it rains for hours when they say 75% chance of rain and it doesn’t t rain at all. Back when doplar radar was good it was accurate not any more systems are out dated models are inaccurate I also herd center point was told to treat the system as a thunderstorm you can get what I’m saying I hope. This is all bad reguardless.
@@USA.RE3 Texas Public Utility Commission: (Google the number) PUC won't be much help with this outage, except that it puts your complaint into the public record. Be sure to state that your complaint is not that you don't have power, but rather Centerpoint continuously fails to provide the infrastructure and resources needed to communicate with the public. They refuse to build a basic website that can communicate with their customers in the middle of an outage. They don't provide enough call center people to take phone calls, they don't disseminate basic information to employees to pass on to customers. (Not to mention they can't provide reliable service). Your call to PUC won't fix your problem today, but by getting your complaint into the public record, it makes it harder for the politicians to claim "there is no problem, the grid is working great". It's not working great. It's terrible. It's fragile, unreliable, and more expensive to the consumer than it has to be.
Yeah. Spot on. ERCOT and Texas railroad commission and the governor are clearly either just terrible at communicating or they are beyond remorse for what they do with the energy trading prop shops that all moved to Houston after JPM got a huge fine manipulating power prices in the northeast. Last night, they sold a lot of power around 3am central. More than the ‘storage’ says is even available. And they won’t fix power to homes that have an external connection until that home owner buys that part, 770k homes without power need that part. It is sold out across the nation. Why they don’t invest in fixing that kind of thing? Cause then they can’t export all the extra power out of state when they have to power their own and they get paid to export, not to invest locally . 2 cents
@@uneedahug5420 Wow!! I really appreciate that info. It even sounds like "trade intel"... Unbelievable! I will not be buying that part. Retiring in Mexico as soon as I can sell my home! Thank you!! 🇺🇲
@captaincrunch72 no, they don't know that, they also don't know TNMP has a chunk in pearland league city kemah, San Leon, texas city and alvin. They just parrot what someone else said
@@Mrhappy555 one of the largest cities in the US, one of the top 5 economies in the US, one of the most populated cities in the US, SHOULD NOT BE OUT OF POWER FOR MORE THAN 2-3 DAYS That is THIRD WORLD QUALITY
If PUC isn't going to hold Centerpoint accountable for the incompetence, why does PUC exist?! Let's start with demanding the CEO of Centerpoint resign.
Day 5 "Off-Grid" (no power 77077) We still have -late 19th Century technology- electric poles for cables on rural areas and cities, exposed transformers and unprotected generators (from air, rain and winter)... I am not sure if ERCOT includes every company that owns the infrastructure in Texas, but they have had *plenty of time* to rebuild, modernize and ultimately develop a network that has the capacity to supply the growing demand and a reliable grid across our State. My comments are not about "bashing" or calling for people to be fired... the intention is to instill in the companies the will to Build systems with the high-quality that American ingenuity and American products used to have.. ● A few years ago, more than 70 people died during a winter storm. Generators, transformers and cabling could not cope with temperature and ice... The same thing can happen on sunny weather with the existing infrastructure. Our governor and officials sent "thoughts and prayers" and a promise to push electric companies under ERCOT to update the grid. After his reelection, Texas is still waiting ☆☆☆🇺🇲☆☆☆
Texas Public Utility Commission: (Google the number) PUC won't be much help with this outage, except that it puts your complaint into the public record. Be sure to state that your complaint is not that you don't have power, but rather Centerpoint continuously fails to provide the infrastructure and resources needed to communicate with the public. They refuse to build a basic website that can communicate with their customers in the middle of an outage. They don't provide enough call center people to take phone calls, they don't disseminate basic information to employees to pass on to customers. (Not to mention they can't provide reliable service). Your call to PUC won't fix your problem today, but by getting your complaint into the public record, it makes it harder for the politicians to claim "there is no problem, the grid is working great". It's not working great. It's terrible. It's fragile, unreliable, and more expensive to the consumer than it has to be.
Every question from the PUC was not answered with any immediate help to customers....Everything was a put off to what they will do next week or beyond....Patting himself on the back as well.....So out of touch with the community and the customers immediate needs....So Frustrating and Sad....
Waiting for all the damage assessments to be complete before starting critical repairs? WTF kind of strategy is that? How about multitasking and attacking the problem areas in parallel? Retask larger crews to more significant problems in real time as other crews fill in the gaps! I'm sure that's happening in the background (more or less), but his explanation is pedantic and dismissive of the people suffering without critical services. 😒👎
THIS They did better jobs in the past. They’re getting worse and worse… Wtf is going on? Is it DEI hires? Is it greedy executives? So much undone maintenance and improvements and investments have been made… it’s a serious shame and disgrace.
I’m grateful too all the lineman and those blaming them need to stop because as someone who still has no power I’m not at all upset with them I’m pissed at center point for not being prepared and for the gaslighting they continue to give us
I want to hear about the problem with outta state crews not getting the pay they were told and why they are technically protesting or not working due to that.
We as Houstonians should file lawsuits against them and sign a petition that will stick to them for not providing electricity in a timely matter. Fire all these people from CEOS and management. Get rid of this company and find us a better solution for our citizens who suffer from breathing and heart failure dialysis and small baby and children. People are sick of paying bills and dont get the satisfaction on what we pay our bills to maintain our money and budgets. Some of us live paychecks to paychecks, and some of us are truly suffering and struggling to stay on top of this hell whole of these politicians who are stealing our hard earned money into their own pockets. Since i moved to Houston, Texas, i have not been happy to see our elders and children who are raised by single parents able to get help to support them in helping them get on their feet. Whers is the support the resources we all need when will we as a whole get support and help by our politicians and government. I guess we must die before we are recognized when we pass away in this lifetime.
Day 5 "Off-Grid" (no power 77077) We still have -late 19th Century technology- electric poles for cables on rural areas and cities, exposed transformers and unprotected generators (from air, rain and winter)... I am not sure if ERCOT includes every company that owns the infrastructure in Texas, but they have had plenty of time to rebuild, modernize and ultimately develop a network that has the capacity to supply the growing demand and a reliable grid across our State. My comments are not about "bashing" or calling for people to be fired... the intention is to instill in the companies the will to Build systems with the high-quality that American ingenuity and American products used to have.. ● A few years ago, more than 70 people died during a winter storm. Generators, transformers and cabling could not cope with temperature and ice... The same thing can happen on sunny weather with the existing infrastructure. Our governor and officials sent "thoughts and prayers" and a promise to push electric companies under ERCOT to update the grid. After his reelection, Texas is still waiting ☆☆☆🇺🇲☆☆☆
We were updated a few years ago in Montgomery County, replacing high tension wood poles with metal and new lines. Not sure why your area hasn’t been updated yet but it’s a huge state and everything takes time.
I just had to add he says it was unpredictable. This year the Atlantic has the hottest water ever in human history, and forecasters are predicting way above average hurricane season as a result. Seems to me that Centerpoint should blame this on climate change and say there’s nothing that can be done about it, of course if they did that they would get Trump mad.
I’m proud of the job this man is doing representing Centerpoint. The behavior of the public and politicians has been ridiculous towards this company. Everyone who have been criticizing the employees of this company should be ashamed of themselves. The community was hit by a natural disaster, during these times it’s important to be helpful not a problem. The news media, politicians and especially the community should be ashamed for allowing and supporting the behavior we have witnessed being shamefully critical
Center Pointless, people electric rates will continue to go upwards and more power outages on the way, if u think u getting cheap electric rates or power backup smh rude awakening, it’s clear as day people
You folks need to understand that they know what discomfort you are experiencing. They are doing there best to get your power back on. You are all in our prayers but you have GOT to understand these men and women are working around the clock leaving their families, their elderly, their children. Some of them are also without power and the ones that come in from outside areas are leaving their own families to work for people in need that are so damn ungrateful! All these folks that are spouting negative crap need to put on your big boy or big girl pants! Everyone has been so spoiled by ac, lights, tv, internet, all the fine advancements and cannot deal with catastrophy. There us coming a time, and I believe not so far from now that this kind of thing is the norm. Get your house in order. People keep ignoring and denying but it very well can and will happen. If you can't deal with this, then you are definitely not going to be ableb to deal with anything on a much larger scale.
@kathyford3463 we are not talking about the people who are working to fix the problem. We are taking about the ceo and vice president of center point management's. This is mismanagement .
They made 6.5 billion in profit last year from 9.6 billion in revenue, they can afford to double the pay across the board, invest 2 billion in infrastructure and still make 2 billion in profit....
Centerpointless 😡
We dont want to hear about weather forcast we want to know why ur company wasnt prepared.....??????!!!!!!!
Day 5 "Off-Grid"
(no power 77077)
We still have -late 19th Century technology- electric poles for cables on rural areas and cities, exposed transformers and unprotected generators (from air, rain and winter)...
I am not sure if ERCOT includes every company that owns the infrastructure in Texas, but they have had plenty of time to rebuild, modernize and ultimately develop a network that has the capacity to supply the growing demand and a reliable grid across our State.
My comments are not about "bashing" or calling for people to be fired... the intention is to instill in the companies the will to Build systems with the high-quality that American ingenuity and American products used to have..
● A few years ago, more than 70 people died during a winter storm. Generators, transformers and cabling could not cope with temperature and ice... The same thing can happen on sunny weather with the existing infrastructure.
Our governor and officials sent "thoughts and prayers" and a promise to push electric companies under ERCOT to update the grid.
After his reelection, Texas is still waiting
☆☆☆🇺🇲☆☆☆
It’s important to hear this because he shows how the gov is lying and meteorologist is in accurate the winds were stronger than cat 2 in Houston which they told us was tropical storm winds on the news. Fam that works for centpoint told me they told them I was cat 3-4 winds when we got hit. Forecast has been inaccurate as you can see lately in house they say it’s going to rain and it doesn’t or they say it 10% rain and it rains for hours when they say 75% chance of rain and it doesn’t t rain at all. Back when doplar radar was good it was accurate not any more systems are out dated models are inaccurate I also herd center point was told to treat the system as a thunderstorm you can get what I’m saying I hope. This is all bad reguardless.
@@USA.RE3 Texas Public Utility Commission: (Google the number)
PUC won't be much help with this outage, except that it puts your complaint into the public record.
Be sure to state that your complaint is not that you don't have power, but rather Centerpoint continuously fails to provide the infrastructure and resources needed to communicate with the public. They refuse to build a basic website that can communicate with their customers in the middle of an outage. They don't provide enough call center people to take phone calls, they don't disseminate basic information to employees to pass on to customers.
(Not to mention they can't provide reliable service).
Your call to PUC won't fix your problem today, but by getting your complaint into the public record, it makes it harder for the politicians to claim "there is no problem, the grid is working great".
It's not working great. It's terrible. It's fragile, unreliable, and more expensive to the consumer than it has to be.
Yeah. Spot on. ERCOT and Texas railroad commission and the governor are clearly either just terrible at communicating or they are beyond remorse for what they do with the energy trading prop shops that all moved to Houston after JPM got a huge fine manipulating power prices in the northeast.
Last night, they sold a lot of power around 3am central. More than the ‘storage’ says is even available.
And they won’t fix power to homes that have an external connection until that home owner buys that part, 770k homes without power need that part. It is sold out across the nation.
Why they don’t invest in fixing that kind of thing? Cause then they can’t export all the extra power out of state when they have to power their own and they get paid to export, not to invest locally .
2 cents
@@uneedahug5420
Wow!!
I really appreciate that info. It even sounds like "trade intel"... Unbelievable!
I will not be buying that part. Retiring in Mexico as soon as I can sell my home!
Thank you!!
🇺🇲
CenterPoint monopolized Texas. We are at their mercy.
You do know there are dozens of grid companies across texas..
@captaincrunch72 no, they don't know that, they also don't know TNMP has a chunk in pearland league city kemah, San Leon, texas city and alvin. They just parrot what someone else said
@@DeanTX Dean the centerpoint map shows my neighborhood is fully energized as of 8 pm.. umm no, my house and 19 others are dark...
@@DeanTXhouston should be serviced by more companies, like cable fanchises used to be
And to think WE ARE THE ENERGY CAPITAL OF THE US!!!!!SO FREAKING UNACCEPTABLE!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Talk talk and talk. Nothing done.
I’m proud of the job Centerpoint is doing and I’m ashamed of the community and politicians making fools out of themselves
@@Mrhappy555 one of the largest cities in the US, one of the top 5 economies in the US, one of the most populated cities in the US, SHOULD NOT BE OUT OF POWER FOR MORE THAN 2-3 DAYS
That is THIRD WORLD QUALITY
@@Mrhappy555non-resident judging
Why is there a hearing on them not doing their jobs 🤬
Instead of paying him and all these executives at center point, they should spent all that money on updating and strengthening our grid
They have been. Look it up. Do your research. It's a public company the financials are all online.
@@labanjohnsonwhy ceo so much money?
If PUC isn't going to hold Centerpoint accountable for the incompetence, why does PUC exist?! Let's start with demanding the CEO of Centerpoint resign.
Day 5 "Off-Grid"
(no power 77077)
We still have -late 19th Century technology- electric poles for cables on rural areas and cities, exposed transformers and unprotected generators (from air, rain and winter)...
I am not sure if ERCOT includes every company that owns the infrastructure in Texas, but they have had *plenty of time* to rebuild, modernize and ultimately develop a network that has the capacity to supply the growing demand and a reliable grid across our State.
My comments are not about "bashing" or calling for people to be fired... the intention is to instill in the companies the will to Build systems with the high-quality that American ingenuity and American products used to have..
● A few years ago, more than 70 people died during a winter storm. Generators, transformers and cabling could not cope with temperature and ice... The same thing can happen on sunny weather with the existing infrastructure.
Our governor and officials sent "thoughts and prayers" and a promise to push electric companies under ERCOT to update the grid.
After his reelection, Texas is still waiting
☆☆☆🇺🇲☆☆☆
Same here @@USA.RE3
Texas Public Utility Commission: (Google the number)
PUC won't be much help with this outage, except that it puts your complaint into the public record.
Be sure to state that your complaint is not that you don't have power, but rather Centerpoint continuously fails to provide the infrastructure and resources needed to communicate with the public. They refuse to build a basic website that can communicate with their customers in the middle of an outage. They don't provide enough call center people to take phone calls, they don't disseminate basic information to employees to pass on to customers.
(Not to mention they can't provide reliable service).
Your call to PUC won't fix your problem today, but by getting your complaint into the public record, it makes it harder for the politicians to claim "there is no problem, the grid is working great".
It's not working great. It's terrible. It's fragile, unreliable, and more expensive to the consumer than it has to be.
Local government, too.
the PUC is in the pocket of .. well you knew that already
Center point should be cut in 2 or 3 different companies is to much work for them and they have shown it …
Ercot through the Texas railroad commission. I dare say no more.
Clear 🤣
Houston is an absolute Hell Hole.
Yack! Yack! Yack! We need action not more talk, excuses & B.S.!
Every question from the PUC was not answered with any immediate help to customers....Everything was a put off to what they will do next week or beyond....Patting himself on the back as well.....So out of touch with the community and the customers immediate needs....So Frustrating and Sad....
My heart goes out to the community. ::dries tears with money:::
Why wasn't the head CEO Jason P. Wells there or the rest of their board?
they embarrassed
The public expects and demands the service they paid for and for centerpoint to be held accountable for not being prepared for the storm.
The PUC will do nothing. So many softball questions. One key question not asked, how are you spending money to keep trees from taking out lines?
that was addressed. They said vegetation so I can understand how you didn't think that included trees...
@@labanjohnson I missed that question. But recent media reports indicate how little they are spending on this.
SO you are the reason there are no available hotels for US🙆🤷🤦
I just can't continue to listen to this LIAR🙄 and his many stories. SO disrespectful 😠
Waiting for all the damage assessments to be complete before starting critical repairs? WTF kind of strategy is that? How about multitasking and attacking the problem areas in parallel? Retask larger crews to more significant problems in real time as other crews fill in the gaps!
I'm sure that's happening in the background (more or less), but his explanation is pedantic and dismissive of the people suffering without critical services. 😒👎
THIS
They did better jobs in the past. They’re getting worse and worse…
Wtf is going on? Is it DEI hires? Is it greedy executives?
So much undone maintenance and improvements and investments have been made… it’s a serious shame and disgrace.
bigot much
People…. Not customers
The political equivalent of adults playing T-ball...can u hit this bud? 🏏
I’m grateful too all the lineman and those blaming them need to stop because as someone who still has no power I’m not at all upset with them I’m pissed at center point for not being prepared and for the gaslighting they continue to give us
I want to hear about the problem with outta state crews not getting the pay they were told and why they are technically protesting or not working due to that.
We as Houstonians should file lawsuits against them and sign a petition that will stick to them for not providing electricity in a timely matter. Fire all these people from CEOS and management. Get rid of this company and find us a better solution for our citizens who suffer from breathing and heart failure dialysis and small baby and children. People are sick of paying bills and dont get the satisfaction on what we pay our bills to maintain our money and budgets. Some of us live paychecks to paychecks, and some of us are truly suffering and struggling to stay on top of this hell whole of these politicians who are stealing our hard earned money into their own pockets. Since i moved to Houston, Texas, i have not been happy to see our elders and children who are raised by single parents able to get help to support them in helping them get on their feet. Whers is the support the resources we all need when will we as a whole get support and help by our politicians and government. I guess we must die before we are recognized when we pass away in this lifetime.
Playing us for fools. Centerpoint management and local government.
Day 5 "Off-Grid"
(no power 77077)
We still have -late 19th Century technology- electric poles for cables on rural areas and cities, exposed transformers and unprotected generators (from air, rain and winter)...
I am not sure if ERCOT includes every company that owns the infrastructure in Texas, but they have had plenty of time to rebuild, modernize and ultimately develop a network that has the capacity to supply the growing demand and a reliable grid across our State.
My comments are not about "bashing" or calling for people to be fired... the intention is to instill in the companies the will to Build systems with the high-quality that American ingenuity and American products used to have..
● A few years ago, more than 70 people died during a winter storm. Generators, transformers and cabling could not cope with temperature and ice... The same thing can happen on sunny weather with the existing infrastructure.
Our governor and officials sent "thoughts and prayers" and a promise to push electric companies under ERCOT to update the grid.
After his reelection, Texas is still waiting
☆☆☆🇺🇲☆☆☆
We were updated a few years ago in Montgomery County, replacing high tension wood poles with metal and new lines.
Not sure why your area hasn’t been updated yet but it’s a huge state and everything takes time.
@@williamcarr3976 I know. It takes time and a strong investment
Well they have no problem implementing creative ways to take payments or make more profits...
YOU are NOT working 16 hour shifts 🙄 You just said something different in the beginning of Your lying speech
I just had to add he says it was unpredictable. This year the Atlantic has the hottest water ever in human history, and forecasters are predicting way above average hurricane season as a result. Seems to me that Centerpoint should blame this on climate change and say there’s nothing that can be done about it, of course if they did that they would get Trump mad.
We need 10000kw/hr for our 24k nvdia training servers.
Time to ditch this state
I’m proud of the job this man is doing representing Centerpoint. The behavior of the public and politicians has been ridiculous towards this company. Everyone who have been criticizing the employees of this company should be ashamed of themselves. The community was hit by a natural disaster, during these times it’s important to be helpful not a problem. The news media, politicians and especially the community should be ashamed for allowing and supporting the behavior we have witnessed being shamefully critical
u work for them?
Texas - The ONE Star state.
77520 still out
Some of spring just got power two hours ago roughly
STOP lying Sir. YOU do not have to fix extensive damage for restoration because we didn't have any you liar. And we haven't seen any of you ever
Con artists!
He is.
The captain of a sinking ship...
Wasn’t Enron based out of here
Why is this video called “Energy company”. This is CenterPoint
Centerpoint is terribly mismanaged! 👎🏻👎🏻
Where is the CEO?
hiding
You're fired 😡
Can someone provide a pdf of the doc this centerpoint vp was using???? Like to follow it with this video.
Repairmen were arriving and waiting, for days, because they didn't have contracts / assignments. This is incompetence.
Center Point= Same excuses different day.🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
Our governor and Lt governor love centerpoint
and ERCOT
Pos
Utter self-serving BS!!! Fire them all!
WHAT ABOUT ENTERGY POWER???🤬
We are not going to be able to pay you after all the money we have spent due to your incompetent behavior
Nobody cares about your thank yous or timelines of the hurricane. We lived it! What are you doing to FIX FIX FIX... when will power be back on???
Might want to be a little more descriptive with your title. "Energy company" sounds like a caveman posted this
Center Pointless, people electric rates will continue to go upwards and more power outages on the way, if u think u getting cheap electric rates or power backup smh rude awakening, it’s clear as day people
Wasted the first 4:52 minutes explaining the hurricane path.Ridiculous 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
Uh uh uh uh um um um is all he saying
CENTERPOINTLE$$
You folks need to understand that they know what discomfort you are experiencing. They are doing there best to get your power back on. You are all in our prayers but you have GOT to understand these men and women are working around the clock leaving their families, their elderly, their children. Some of them are also without power and the ones that come in from outside areas are leaving their own families to work for people in need that are so damn ungrateful! All these folks that are spouting negative crap need to put on your big boy or big girl pants! Everyone has been so spoiled by ac, lights, tv, internet, all the fine advancements and cannot deal with catastrophy. There us coming a time, and I believe not so far from now that this kind of thing is the norm. Get your house in order. People keep ignoring and denying but it very well can and will happen. If you can't deal with this, then you are definitely not going to be ableb to deal with anything on a much larger scale.
Here's the problem with that. It is what they have failed to do for more than a decade that has put us in this situation.
@kathyford3463 we are not talking about the people who are working to fix the problem. We are taking about the ceo and vice president of center point management's. This is mismanagement .
@stuartdryer135 centerpointless is now employing shill posters
Batırdınız herkesi abv. 🤬
You and your CEO should be fired
Is it just me or does it seem that these council members were soft in their demands of centerpoints reaction instead of proaction.
Instead of paying him and all these executives at center point, they should spent all that money on updating and strengthening our grid
They made 6.5 billion in profit last year from 9.6 billion in revenue, they can afford to double the pay across the board, invest 2 billion in infrastructure and still make 2 billion in profit....
@@DeanTX but will they do it? Will we force them to do it?
Or will nothing change?…
@@DeanTXis that what you want?