Our neighborhood in Spring TX just had these installed last year. All held up great during Beryl, however, the cause of the outages in our neighborhood was not snapped / downed poles but large old trees inside the easement line that fell on distribution lines. These poles will be useless in Houston where we love our overgrown pine / oak trees. I smell concurrent fines coming to homeowners to compensate for this shortcoming.
Correct, I live on a corner lot and I have a (wooden) powerpole in my backyard which I can tell feeds the entire block. If I dont keep that area trimmed up, I can assure you I easily have "control" over the rest of the blocks power should I neglect the growth in that area.
No need for an investigation. It's all public knowledge. Everything is working as you would expect. _CenterPoint Energy's Political Action Committee (PAC) makes contributions to various political candidates and committees. For the 2023-2024 period, their contributions have been predominantly directed towards Republican candidates and committees - according to OpenSecrets & the Federal Election Commission._ Top Donor: David Lesar, former CEO of Halliburton and former CPA for Arthur Anderson Top Recipients (tied): The Mayor of Houston - JOHN WHITMIRE CAMPAIGN among several others
So its the people that suffered and now the people that will pay. While centerpoint doing interviews in a black log sleeve cuz his office little chilly con queso
Buying the lines is what they should be doing. Not putting up more outdated infrastructure. Also, adding more redundancy. Very often only a single line feeds a neighborhood or even large shopping centers.
The question is does it make financial sense??? If it's going to cost us an arm and a leg to pay our electric bill. Sounds very questionable need more proof
light bills finna go up 1000%😭
If they go up anymore then half of Houston will be powerless
@@reflect-z3i if everyone united & stopped paying then they'll fail...
But that wont happen though 😹
@@MrCalverinoyeah are you gonna stop using electricity? I didn’t think so.
@@keg10609 YOU INTERNET TROLLS ARE SO ANNOYING- LIKE WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT USAGE I SIMPLY SAID THEY'RE ABOUT TO SERIOUSLY START GOUGING!!!
@@keg10609 go solar and you could stop drawing for the grid.
Unless they make the lines indestructible, it won’t help much.
underground!
Our neighborhood in Spring TX just had these installed last year. All held up great during Beryl, however, the cause of the outages in our neighborhood was not snapped / downed poles but large old trees inside the easement line that fell on distribution lines. These poles will be useless in Houston where we love our overgrown pine / oak trees. I smell concurrent fines coming to homeowners to compensate for this shortcoming.
Were you near Kuykendahl and Cypresswood? It was a huge tree that took out lines.
@@Kenxclout it was the Northwood park area on 2920 and Falvel.
Correct, I live on a corner lot and I have a (wooden) powerpole in my backyard which I can tell feeds the entire block. If I dont keep that area trimmed up, I can assure you I easily have "control" over the rest of the blocks power should I neglect the growth in that area.
Sounds like BS to me lol
Where is the investigation on who in Government is being funded by Centerpoint?
No need for an investigation. It's all public knowledge. Everything is working as you would expect.
_CenterPoint Energy's Political Action Committee (PAC) makes contributions to various political candidates and committees. For the 2023-2024 period, their contributions have been predominantly directed towards Republican candidates and committees - according to OpenSecrets & the Federal Election Commission._
Top Donor:
David Lesar, former CEO of Halliburton and former CPA for Arthur Anderson
Top Recipients (tied):
The Mayor of Houston - JOHN WHITMIRE CAMPAIGN among several others
@@dancox3251good info, thanks
They won't tell you that because they paid their checks.
Still don’t have power
What about the transformers?
Autobots or Decepticons?
Maybe China can make this for half the cost.
walmart!
Those poles can still come down during storms.
So its the people that suffered and now the people that will pay. While centerpoint doing interviews in a black log sleeve cuz his office little chilly con queso
5 grand each?
ain't power grand!
@@mike_w-tw6jd, 5 grand, indeed!
So they been had these for a minute now and waited till now to bring it out lol
yup, any PR they can
So ... Power more expensive...
Because they will not cut on their PROFITS!
NO, NO, NO ... DON'T TOUCH THE PROFIT$ ....
american way
Buying the lines is what they should be doing. Not putting up more outdated infrastructure. Also, adding more redundancy. Very often only a single line feeds a neighborhood or even large shopping centers.
Yes I've seen a lot of those poles being installed.
ur kinky
The question is does it make financial sense??? If it's going to cost us an arm and a leg to pay our electric bill. Sounds very questionable need more proof
just go underground with wires
Fla. uses concrete poles
Do you know if it's worked better for them?
Old technology-- electric wires out in the open.
Stock investment
'new' pole will protect our power... hell, it cannot be even be protected from carved graffiti 🤔
u gettin ideas