Houston Power Outages Still Top 1.3 Million With Slow Recovery

The lights are slowly turning back on Houston — though the key word there is slowly.

Roughly 1.7 million homes and businesses were still without power in Texas on Wednesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. The majority of the problems are concentrated in Houston, with the area’s main utility, CenterPoint Energy Inc., accounting for almost 1.4 million of those outages.

Houston is still strangled by the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, which struck the country’s fourth-largest city on Monday as a Category 1 hurricane.

The outages, which at their peak cut power to more than 2.5 million customers across the ...