CenterPoint's project would have used the money 'to fund high wind and flood mitigation projects.'
Copy LinkCenterPoint Energy sought the money from a new $10.5 billion Department of Energy program that is helping utilities, states and local agencies protect the electric grid from the growing threats of extreme weather and climate change.
CenterPoint has faced criticism for widespread power outages after Hurricane Beryl, a Category 1 storm, hit the area Monday morning, downing electric poles and wires across the nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area.But more than 1 million customers remained without electricity as the region sweltered under “extremely dangerous heat conditions,” according to the National Weather Service.
Bridges, roads, electric grids, and anything that benefits a state should be paid for through local taxes for those areas.Mudslide in California? Not an issue that Georgia taxpayers should pay for.
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