Factbox-Over 284,000 customers in Texas without power from Storm Nicholas

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That is down from a peak of 529,000 customers out in Texas Tuesday morning.

The center of Nicholas was located about 30 miles (55 kilometers) southeast of Houston and could cause life-threatening flash floods across the Deep South during the next couple of days, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

Texas energy company CenterPoint Energy Inc (NYSE:CNP), the company with the most outages so far, had about 238,000 customers without power in the Houston area Tuesday afternoon, down from a peak of around 454,000 earlier in the day.

The following table lists major outages by utility, including about 97,000 outages in Louisiana left from Hurricane Ida over two weeks ago since Nicholas is expected to move from Texas to Louisiana on Wednesday:

Power Company State/Province Out Now Served

CenterPoint TX 237,500 2,500,000

Entergy (NYSE:ETR) – Louisiana (from Ida) LA 89,900 over 1,000,000

PNM Resources – Texas New Mexico Power TX 24,400 260,000

AEP – Texas TX 14,600 1,057,900

Entergy – Texas TX 7,600 473,000

Dixie Electric Membership (from Ida) LA 6,900 112,400

Texas Total 284,100

Louisiana Total 96,800