{"id":278398,"date":"2025-10-05T01:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/278398\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T01:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:05:37","slug":"centerpoint-energy-customers-to-see-2-increase-in-their-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/278398\/","title":{"rendered":"CenterPoint Energy customers to see $2 increase in their bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 If you are a CenterPoint Energy customer, your bill is about to go up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Customers will see an increase of $2 over the next 15 years. This is for CenterPoint to recover the costs associated with damage to the company\u2019s infrastructure from recent storms, like Hurricane Beryl, the 2024 derecho, and the January 2025 winter storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The $2 surcharge comes following a proposed rate increase CenterPoint Energy presented before the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT). After negotiations, the PUCT approved the proposal, clearing the way for the rate increase.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">To put things into context, CenterPoint said the recent storms caused nearly $1.5 billion in damages to it\u2019s infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The company says the proposal which they presented to the PUCT allows them to spread out their repair and recovery costs, which is lower than it would be if the company had used traditional financing.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cTo get the full picture, it\u2019s important to remember that the storm restoration costs settlement does add about $2 per month to the average customer\u2019s bill, customers have also had $1 per month subtracted from rates as part of the rate case settlement earlier this year. Additionally, costs associated with the large temporary emergency generation units (all 12 of which are now in the San Antonio area serving statewide backup energy needs) are now coming out of rates for Houston electric customers and bills will be reduced by an estimated $2 less per month for the average customer by 2027,\u201d the company explained.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 If you are a CenterPoint Energy customer, your bill is about to go up. Customers will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":278399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[22522,11366,4345,143845,17233,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-278398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-centerpoint-energy","9":"tag-damage","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-puct","12":"tag-rate-increase","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115318877335382126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}