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Nicholas was currently located about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south-southwest 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, currently has about 413,000 customers without power in the Houston area. That represents about 17% of the company’s Houston-area customers.
The following table lists major outages by utility:
Power Company State/Prov Out Now Served
ince
CenterPoint TX 413,000 2,500,000
PNM Resources – Texas New Mexico Power TX 44,000 260,000
AEP – Texas TX 15,100 1,057,900
Entergy (NYSE:ETR) – Texas TX 8,500 473,000
Sempra – Oncor TX 4,200 3,809,500
Sam Houston Electric Co-op TX 1,000 81,600
Total 485,800
