CenterPoint Energy unveils public map tracking GHRI street-level grid upgrades across Greater Houston
- CenterPoint Energy launched a web-based Community Progress Tracker mapping GHRI upgrades across a 12-county area.
- The tracker shows street-, neighborhood-, and ZIP-level progress, including 56,000+ resilient poles, 8,000+ trimming miles, 500+ devices.
- CenterPoint says the public map improves transparency, emergency planning, and coordination with customers, governments, and responders.
CenterPoint Unveils Public Map of Grid Upgrades
HOUSTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - CenterPoint Energy launches a web-based Community Progress Tracker that centralizes visibility of Greater Houston Resiliency Initiative (GHRI) improvements across a 12-county area, giving customers a map-based, street-, neighborhood- and ZIP code-level view of infrastructure upgrades completed since Aug. 1, 2024. The tool is designed to present measurable progress metrics in one public location, showing work completed down to specific streets and ZIP codes and making deployment data accessible on phones, tablets, laptops and desktops.
Street-Level Visibility of GHRI Upgrades
The tracker documents more than 56,000 new storm-resilient poles and related equipment, over 8,000 miles of enhanced tree-trimming and vegetation management, and more than 500 new automation and intelligence devices and advanced grid technologies, CenterPoint says. As part of a multi-year grid-hardening program aimed at building the most resilient coastal grid in the nation, the map also reflects undergrounded power lines and other modernization projects intended to improve reliability and resiliency as severe weather becomes more frequent.
CenterPoint frames the tool as both customer-facing transparency and an operational dashboard. Chief Customer Officer Tony Gardner says the tracker gives customers “a clear window” into work in their communities. The company says the map provides location-specific, measurable progress metrics so residents can see what has been completed on their street and in their ZIP code and helps CenterPoint measure outcomes from its resilience strategy and customer communications improvements. Updates roll out regularly to reflect ongoing construction, trimming schedules and the installation of additional resilience technologies.
Support for Emergency Planning and Local Coordination
By aggregating GHRI projects publicly, CenterPoint enables customers, local governments, emergency responders and regional planners to monitor deployment of physical assets and intelligent devices and to quantify miles of vegetation work. The company positions the tracker as a tool for informed community feedback and better coordination with municipal and emergency planning efforts across the Greater Houston region and beyond.
Operational and Technical Scope
The interactive map ties operational investments — poles, undergrounded lines, enhanced trimming and automation — to outage-restoration objectives, allowing stakeholders to track how more than 56,000 poles, 8,000+ miles of trimming and 500+ automation devices are intended to reduce outage impacts and speed restoration as GHRI progresses.