Centerpoint Energy is a gas and power provider in the
Houston area with over 5 million customers. Following
Hurricane Ike's 100-mile-an-hour winds, over 1 million citizens lost their power, and CenterPoint Energy is attempting to restore power to as many as possible.ref name=<MW1>MarketWatch:
CenterPoint Energy Begins Power Restoration (September 13, 2008)</ref> On
September 13,
2008, the company's main website had reported that 1.99 million customers had lost power, 270,000 had power and 112,000 had their power restored.
[Official Site: Centerpoint Energy][Official Site: Centerpoint Energy Outage and Restoration Updates]