Windows are still falling from skyscrapers in downtown Houston after a historic wind storm whipped through the city last week. And days after the disaster, more than 140,000 customers in the area remain without power.
Most of those homes and businesses are served by CenterPoint Energy Inc. The utility operates the most stressed local power grid in the country.
That’s according to data from Whisker Labs Inc., which developed technology to monitor grid faults and other issues. The company’s residential sensors showed that in April, CenterPoint’s territory in Houston and surrounding areas had the highest count of problems out of any of the six dozen major utilities tracked.
While there’s little protection