Factbox-In Texas, over 1 million customers still without power after Hurricane Beryl

July 8, 2024 11:55 AM EDT

FILE PHOTO: Shan Mei Martinez and Mario Martinez retrieve door braces to secure their back bay-facing door, as residents prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl in Port Lavaca, Texas, U.S. July 7, 2024. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File Photo

(Reuters) - More than 1 million homes and businesses in Texas were still without power early on Friday, after Hurricane Beryl slammed through the region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.

The number was down from a peak of close to 2.7 million homes and businesses without power on Monday, when Beryl made landfall near the coastal town of Matagorda.

Provider Centerpoint Energy said it has restored power to over 1 million customers of the 2.26 million impacted.

Here are the major outages by utility:

Power Companies Outages

CenterPoint Energy 877,414

Entergy 79,774

Texas New Mexico Power 47,798

Sam Houston Electric Cooperative 18,978

AEP - Texas 947

Oncor 306

MidSouth Electric Cooperative 25

Total Out

1,025,242

(Reporting by Seher Dareen, Rahul Paswan, Anushree Mukherjee, Sherin Elizabeth and Daksh Grover in Bengaluru; Editing by Susan Fenton)



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