Holiday campaign to include daily social
media tips to keep friends, family and neighbors safe during the
holiday season and to promote the importance of preparedness and
safety for winter storm season
HOUSTON, Dec. 13,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of a company-wide effort
to prepare for extreme weather and the 2025 winter storm season,
CenterPoint Energy is launching a new "12 Days of Holiday Safety"
campaign.
The new holiday campaign will provide important daily winter and
holiday safety tips and tools for customers, as well as a social
media campaign with safety resources and tips to help customers
better prepare for the winter season. The holiday campaign follows
a series of pre-winter preparedness actions CenterPoint has taken
to strengthen and winterize its electric and gas infrastructure, as
well as inspect and test cold-weather critical equipment ahead of
severe weather that could impact the gas and electric system in the
winter months.
"This holiday season, and through winter, we want all our
customers to know about the array of safety actions we are taking
to be prepared for the winter storm season, as well as how they,
their families, and neighbors can be safe and better prepared for
storms to come. To date, we have taken a range of actions to get
ready, and we want our customers to take some simple steps to plan
and stay safe ahead of extreme cold and winter storms," said
Richard Leger, Senior Vice President
of CenterPoint Energy's Natural Gas business.
CenterPoint Customer Campaign: 12 Days of Holiday
Safety
As part of its "12 Days of Holiday Safety"
campaign, CenterPoint will be raising awareness around
important and helpful safety tips, tools and links to customer
resources via email, as well as a new social media campaign. All of
the holiday safety resources will be available at the
CenterPointEnergy.com/ReadyForWinter website.
Among the customer safety areas CenterPoint will highlight
are:
- Day One: Holiday lighting safety
- Day Two: Holiday cooking safety
- Day Three: Use CenterPoint's new and improved Outage
Tracker to stay informed
- Day Four: Holiday candle safety
- Day Five: Test smoke detectors and carbon monoxide
detectors
- Day Six: Fireplace safety
- Day Seven: Holiday tree care and safety
- Day Eight: Space heater safety
- Day Nine: Unplug unused appliances, turn off unused
lights and turn down thermostats
- Day Ten: Be prepared – have an emergency kit stocked and
ready with supplies
- Day Eleven: Identify and know where your closest warming
center is located
- Day Twelve: Sign up for CenterPoint's Power Alert
Service for your home, business or family members
Electric Customers Encouraged to Enroll in Power Alert
Service®
As part of its campaign, CenterPoint
electric customers are encouraged to enroll in the
company's Power Alert Service® to receive winter
storm outage details, estimated restoration times and
customer-specific restoration updates by phone call, text or
email.
About CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
As the only
investor-owned electric and gas utility based in Texas, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) is
an energy delivery company with electric transmission and
distribution, power generation and natural gas distribution
operations that serve more than 7 million metered customers in
Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas. With approximately 9,000 employees,
CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in
business for more than 150 years. For more information, visit
CenterPointEnergy.com.
For more information, contact
Media Relations
Media.Relations@CenterPointEnergy.com
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