# CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC

Summary updated: 2026-09-28T12:12:03.675246Z
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## Overview

CenterPoint Energy, Inc. is a Houston-based utility holding company that delivers electricity and natural gas to customers in the United States. Its core operations are electric transmission and distribution in the Greater Houston area, electric service and generation in southwestern Indiana, and natural-gas distribution in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas. The company serves nearly 2.8 million electric customers in Greater Houston, more than 150,000 in southwestern Indiana, and more than 3.9 million natural-gas customers across its four-state gas territory. [1](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130310/000113031026000008/cnp-20251231.htm)[2](https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/corp/pages/company-overview-where-we-serve.aspx)

CenterPoint describes its vision as leading the nation in delivering energy, service and value. Its scale is primarily domestic: it reported $9.36 billion in revenue for 2025 and described its workforce as nearly 8,800 people. [3](https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/corp/pages/company-overview.aspx)[1](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130310/000113031026000008/cnp-20251231.htm)[4](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130310/000110465926023471/tm261341d6_ars.pdf)
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## Products & services

CenterPoint Energy’s electric services differ by market. In the Houston area, it transmits and distributes electricity over the grid to customers served by retail electric providers; it does not sell them the electricity itself. In southwestern Indiana, its utility delivers and sells electricity and operates generation facilities. At year-end 2025, those facilities had 1,228 MW of installed capacity: 360 MW of coal, 623 MW of natural gas and 245 MW of solar generation. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P15413455)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P101622282)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T9039938) Its electric services also include new-service connections, commercial generation interconnection, smart-meter technology and energy-efficiency programs. [10](https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/business/customer-service/service-connect/construction-process?sa=ho)[11](https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/Services/Pages/Commercial-Generation.aspx?au=bus&sa=HO)[12](https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/our-services/electric-utility/technology)[13](https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/SaveEnergyandMoney/Pages/electric-efficiency-programs-we-offer.aspx?au=res&sa=HO)

Its natural-gas utility service supplies and distributes gas through mains, service lines, meters and regulating equipment in Texas, Minnesota, Indiana and Ohio. Offerings include residential and business gas service, new connections and meter work. The gas businesses also use underground storage and contracted pipeline and storage capacity to support delivery; at year-end 2025, they owned eight underground storage assets with 43 billion cubic feet of capacity. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P64652212)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P84587589)[15](https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/our-services/natural-gas)[16](https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/our-services/meter-upgrade)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T6235616) In 2025, electric services generated $4.866 billion in segment revenue, compared with $4.486 billion from natural gas—approximately 52% and 48%, respectively, of revenue across the two segments. [18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3190954)[19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T4077439)
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## Geographic presence

CenterPoint Energy’s electric operations are concentrated in Texas and southwestern Indiana. Its Houston-area utility provides transmission service within Texas’s ERCOT market and distribution service along the Texas Gulf Coast, including nearly all of the Houston–Galveston metropolitan area. Its Indiana electric utility serves Evansville and surrounding communities. [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P54324600)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P46023959)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P73315562)

Its natural-gas distribution footprint spans Texas, Minnesota, Indiana and Ohio, with major service areas around Houston, Minneapolis, Evansville and Dayton. Louisiana and Mississippi gas distribution operations were sold in March 2025; the Ohio gas utility remained in the footprint at year-end 2025 but was under agreement to be sold. CenterPoint Energy’s principal executive offices are in Houston, Texas. [23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P17168658)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P107942354)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P91377275)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P39284022)
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## Business segments

CenterPoint Energy reports two operating segments, Electric and Natural Gas, alongside Corporate and Other. Electric covers electricity transmission and distribution in the Houston area and an Indiana utility that also operates generating facilities. In 2025, Electric generated $4.87 billion in revenue, approximately 52% of consolidated revenue. [27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P1532309)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P15413455)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P101622282)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3190954)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T12288414)

Natural Gas distributes gas through utility operations in Texas, Minnesota, Indiana and Ohio. It generated $4.49 billion in 2025 revenue, approximately 48% of consolidated revenue. Corporate and Other is reported separately in segment results; it recorded a $223 million net loss available to common shareholders in 2025. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P64652212)[19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T4077439)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T12288414)[28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T6187703)
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## Company history

CenterPoint Energy’s roots include Houston Gas Light, founded in 1866, and Houston Electric Lighting & Power, which received a Houston electric-service franchise in 1882. Houston Industries, a predecessor, acquired natural-gas company NorAm Energy in 1997 and changed its name to Reliant Energy in 1999. [29](https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/about-us/history)[30](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/202131/0000950129-97-003142.txt)[31](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/48732/000119312524247546/0001193125-24-247546.txt)

CenterPoint Energy was established in 2002 through a restructuring of Reliant Energy that separated utility operations from other businesses. It sold its interest in the Texas Genco power-generation business in 2005. In 2013, CenterPoint and its partners formed Enable Midstream Partners, expanding its midstream involvement. CenterPoint acquired Vectren in 2019, broadening its utility footprint, and began exiting midstream operations after Energy Transfer acquired Enable in 2021. [32](https://investors.centerpointenergy.com/corporate-transactions)[33](https://investors.centerpointenergy.com/news-releases/news-release-details/centerpoint-energy-completes-sale-texas-genco-holdings-inc)[34](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1130310/000113031014000005/cnp_10kx12312013.htm)[35](https://investors.centerpointenergy.com/news-releases/news-release-details/centerpoint-energy-and-vectren-complete-merger)[36](https://investors.centerpointenergy.com/news-releases/news-release-details/centerpoint-energy-begins-exit-midstream-following-energy)
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