According to Centerpoint Energy, its power failure is ready for the hurricane season

Centerpoint Energy is a big player in Texas and most of his electricity customers in the Houston region. The total load in the Texas network is about 25%.

Since the hurricane season quickly approaches on June 1st, Centerpoint promises that his failure tracker is ready for the worst. Last year, Centerpoint customers were frustrated after the former tracker proved to be useless with several storms, including a Derecho, which was hit in May and July Hurricane Beryll.

Claire Hao, the energy and the power grid for the Chronicle covered in Houston, said that the new tracking system rolled out last August.

“The biggest change that was made was that they were converted from a physical server to a cloud-based platform,” she said. “The reason for moving to the cloud is that it is able to automatically scale its capacity in response to more people with the tracker.”

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Last spring the tracker broke during the echo and then stayed all the way until August, said Hao.

“Centerpoint gave some reasons why it was broken,” she said. “The original reason was that there were too many people on the website – so when they try to get tickets with a ticket master, it is (the same).”

The server was also housed on a physical server that was damaged during the Derechos.

“That is why they have now moved to an online system that can automatically scale,” said Hao. “Apparently it is able to organize up to 20 million users in a certain hour.

Some meteorologists say we are overdue for another event in Harvey in Harvey in Harvey or at least another great hurricane. After a big storm, Hao said that it was the key for those affected to know where to have electricity in their area so that they can find resources and supplies.

“And that’s why during the hurricane of the last year, especially the residents of the Houston region, were really angry that they couldn’t rely on the Centerpoint Outage Tracker,” she said. “Many people actually started using the WHATABURG -App and found that the app showed which restaurants were open and which were closed, and that was like a pseudo -like to know what areas in the region.”

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City officials fought for a reliable power failure card even without access.

“Officials in Houston or other local officials rely on a status tracker to use resources,” said Hao. “Centerpoint, which was not available through this information, also slowed this answer. The city of Houston actually had to create its own failure tracker.”

State officials also replied what happened to the Centerpoint Outage Tracker last year.

“The state pension authority – that is the public pension commission of Texas; it is a state agency – you have actually implemented new rules that require that every single supply company in the state has a functional failure tracker,” said Hao. “If a successor to supply does not become functional, you have to report this to the agency. You have to specify a timeline about when you will resume. Or if you lose this for maintenance, you will know when to withdraw.