For the last two weeks, at peak, 300 CenterPoint Energy frontline workers and contractors have been in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, providing mutual aid assistance in some of Hurricane Helene’s hardest-hit regions. The remaining team members from that deployment have returned home.
Recently, the company sent 50 CenterPoint workers from Houston to retrieve company trucks and equipment from crews assisting with Hurricane Helene restoration efforts in the Carolinas and transfer those resources to Florida for service after Hurricane Milton.
Also, nearly 300 additional CenterPoint workers and contractors from Houston and Evansville were sent to Florida to help support the effort, bringing the total mutual aid contingent to almost 350 personnel.
“We are proud of our team members and contractors who have been in Florida and the Carolinas for the last two weeks supporting the power restoration efforts in the wake of Hurricane Helene,” said Darin Carroll, Senior Vice President of Electric Business. “They have been doing around-the-clock heroic work, and we are grateful for their dedication and perseverance. We look forward to welcoming them home.”
“Additionally, we always answer the call when our peer companies in other parts of the country make these requests. Hurricane Milton is another one of those opportunities to help others. It’s who we are as individuals and an industry. We want to thank all our team members heading out today and know they will make us proud. As those colleagues support restoration efforts, we remain prepared and ready to respond to any operational needs in our electric service territories in Houston and Evansville,” concluded Carroll.
