CenterPoint’s deceptive billing practices put customers at risk of disconnection
March 21, 2025
The utility redirects customer payments for gas service to its for-profit appliance business
CenterPoint Energy
CenterPoint Energy is a gas and electric utility serving customers in Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas. It has more than 4.3 million gas customers across all six states, and 2.9 million electric customers concentrated in greater Houston and southwestern Indiana. CenterPoint is based in Texas.
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CenterPoint lobbyist ghostwrote comments to support gas appliance rebates
November 19, 2024
Comments filed by appliance companies and a pro-gas group came after consumer and climate advocates disputed CenterPoint’s rebate program.
As Customers Struggled, Utility CEOs’ Pay Spiked Last Year
July 18, 2024
While many Americans saw their energy bills go up substantially in the past year, investor-owned electric and gas utilities and the country’s largest publicly owned utility paid their CEOs over $647 million in 2023, an increase of 9 percent over 2022, an analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute has found. The CEOs for the...
Utility CEOs received $3.2 billion in executive compensation from 2017 – 2022
July 6, 2023
Investor-owned electric and gas utilities paid their CEOs $3.2 billion between 2017 and 2022, according to corporate data reviewed by the Energy and Policy Institute. CEOs for the 57 companies reviewed for this analysis received more than $578 million in 2022. Total utility CEO compensation declined from last year, as it did for most other...