Customers Now Receiving Solar Energy Through The Company’s Largest Universal Solar Project

 Evansville, Ind. – May 19, 2021 – As a component of the company’s long-term electric generation transition plan, CenterPoint Energy’s 50-megawatt (MW) universal solar array located in eastern Spencer County is now in service and providing energy to the company’s 145,000 electric customers in southwest Indiana.

The $95 million projects received regulatory approval in March 2019. CenterPoint Energy partnered with Burns & McDonnell on the engineering and construction of the project. One of the largest single-site solar arrays in Indiana, the project is located near Troy, Ind., on approximately 300 acres and consists of about 150,000 solar panels. Each panel is mounted on a single-axis tracking system, enabling the panels to automatically rotate to follow the sun and maximize energy generation.

“This 50 MW project – combined with our existing 4MW of solar and future plans for additional renewables – continues to demonstrate our commitment to developing a more balanced energy mix in how we generate electricity,” said Steve Greenley, Senior Vice President of Generation Development. “We appreciate the collaboration with Burns & McDonnell design and construction teams to bring this project to fruition.”

The Troy solar array, in addition to the two previously built 2-MW universal solar projects, now generates enough power to meet the needs of more than 12,000 households per year. When including Vectren’s 80 MW of wind power purchased through contracts with Benton County wind farms and its 3.2-MW landfill gas facility in Pike County, that amounts to enough renewable energy in CenterPoint Energy’s electric generation portfolio to power more than 35,000 homes, or nearly 25 percent of the company’s residential electric customers in Indiana. The project further supports CenterPoint Energy’s carbon reduction plan of lowering carbon emissions by 70% over 2005 levels by 2035.

The Troy solar project is part of CenterPoint Energy’s Smart Energy Future strategy, which includes electric generation fleet diversification by adding natural gas and renewables, grid modernization projects, and smart energy management tools for customers. For more information, visitwww.CenterPointEnergy.com/SmartEnergyFuture.

CenterPoint Energy delivers electricity to approximately 145,000 customers in southwest Indiana in all or portions of Gibson, Dubois, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties. Programs and services are operated under the brand CenterPoint Energy by Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company d/b/a CenterPoint Energy Indiana South.

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 About CenterPoint Energy

As the only investor-owned electric and gas utility based in Texas, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) is an energy delivery company with electric transmission and distribution, power generation, and natural gas distribution operations that serve more than 7 million metered customers in Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas. As of March 31, 2021, the company owned approximately $36 billion in assets and also owned 53.7 percent of the common units representing limited partner interests in Enable Midstream Partners, LP, a publicly traded master limited partnership that owns, operates, and develops strategically located natural gas and crude oil infrastructure assets. With approximately 9,500 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 150 years. For more information, visit CenterPointEnergy.com.