CenterPoint Energy, Inc. reports developments for a multi-state electric and natural gas delivery company serving metered customers in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas. The company’s recurring news covers regulated electric transmission and distribution, power generation, natural gas distribution, customer service initiatives and grid resiliency work, including storm-hardening, vegetation management, automation and other reliability-focused infrastructure upgrades.
CenterPoint Energy news also includes quarterly and annual operating results, dividend declarations, debt and convertible-note financing, capital investment plans, shareholder matters and Board governance updates. Company updates frequently connect earnings drivers to regulatory recovery, weather and usage, operating expense, interest expense and investment in system safety, reliability and resilience.
CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP) will pay additional interest of $5.39122 per ZENS note on November 4, 2026. Holders of record at the close of business on October 21, 2026 qualify for the payment. ZENS are the company's 2.0 percent Zero-Premium Exchangeable Subordinated Notes due 2029.
The payment reflects cash distributed for the reference shares attributable to each note following the Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merger, which closed on October 6, 2026.
CenterPoint Energy (CNP) is sending 355 employees and contractors to support Florida Power & Light's Hurricane Isaias power restoration efforts.
The mutual assistance deployment supports restoration in Pensacola following hurricane-related outages along the Northwest Florida Coast. CenterPoint has deployed 105 line workers and released approximately 150 contractor line workers and 100 vegetation management personnel to assist. The company expects the combined workforce to support restoration efforts over the coming days.
CenterPoint Energy (CNP) has installed more than 83,500 storm-resilient poles through its Greater Houston Resiliency Initiative, launched in August 2024.
As of September 30, upgrades also included clearing more than 14,000 miles of higher-risk vegetation, installing 850+ automation devices and undergrounding 900 miles of power lines. CenterPoint projects the program will prevent 150 million customer outage minutes in 2026.
Hub Group (Nasdaq: HUBG) changed its board effective October 1, 2026, following written consent from its controlling shareholders. Yeager family members and related trusts holding a majority of voting power appointed four directors, removed three without cause and adopted amended bylaws. Three other directors subsequently resigned, leaving a seven-member board. Management, strategy and daily operations are unchanged. The board plans to appoint a Lead Independent Director and reconstitute its committees.
Hub Group expects to complete its financial restatement and file delayed reports in the fourth quarter of 2026. Nasdaq initiated delisting proceedings because the 2025 annual report and first two 2026 quarterly reports remain unfiled. Hub Group appealed and received a stay pending the outcome of a hearing scheduled for October 27, 2026; the determination did not immediately suspend trading or delist its Class A shares.
CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP) completed the sale of its Ohio natural gas distribution business to National Fuel Gas Company for $2.62 billion. The business, Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, includes approximately 5,900 miles of gas transmission and distribution pipeline serving approximately 335,000 metered customers in West Central Ohio.
All required federal and state approvals were received, including completion of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio review. National Fuel will immediately assume responsibility for the former CenterPoint customers. CenterPoint said proceeds will support investments across its regulated utility footprint and help fund its $66.7 billion, 10-year capital plan.
CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP) will host its third-quarter 2026 earnings conference call on October 27, 2026, to discuss quarterly results. Earnings will be released that day before the market opens. The call begins at 7:00 a.m. Central / 8:00 a.m. Eastern, with a live audio webcast at CenterPointEnergy.com. The webcast will remain archived on the company’s website for at least one year.
CenterPoint Energy (CNP) declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.2400 per common share on September 24, 2026. The dividend is payable on December 10, 2026, to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 19, 2026.
The company serves more than 7 million metered customers in Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio and Texas.
CenterPoint Energy (CNP) was selected on September 24, 2026, for a $50 million U.S. Department of Energy award for Houston grid upgrades.
The award remains subject to final negotiations with the department and is intended to fund substation upgrades through its SPARK program. CenterPoint plans to install Siemens Energy technology designed to stabilize the transmission grid and respond rapidly to changes in electricity demand. The project is expected to improve reliability and increase capacity in Greater Houston, where CenterPoint serves 2.9 million customers.
CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp. (CNP) set pricing terms and early tender results for its cash tender offers for four senior note series, now targeting up to a $400 million aggregate purchase price (excluding accrued interest) and removing the prior $100 million cap on 2034 notes.
The company released the U.S. Treasury reference yields, fixed spreads and total consideration per $1,000 of principal, including a $30 early tender payment for notes validly tendered by September 21, 2026 and accepted. Based on early tenders, CERC expects to accept about $9.1 million of 2047 notes, $274.5 million of 2032 notes and $131.4 million of 2034 notes (after a ~43.8% proration), and no 2028 notes. Early settlement is expected on September 24, 2026, and although the offers run to October 6, 2026, no additional notes are expected to be purchased after early settlement.
CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp. (CNP) reported early participation and an increase in size for its cash tender offers for certain senior notes as of 5:00 p.m. New York City time on September 21, 2026.
CERC raised the Aggregate Maximum Amount from $350 million to a New Aggregate Maximum Amount of $400 million (purchase price excluding accrued interest) and removed the $100 million tender cap on the 5.40% Senior Notes due 2034. Early tenders totaled $9.1 million of 4.10% 2047 Notes (4.76% of outstanding), $274.5 million of 4.40% 2032 Notes (54.90%), $300.5 million of 5.40% 2034 Notes (75.12%) and $150.0 million of 4.00% 2028 Notes (49.99%). Holders who tendered by the Early Tender Date and whose notes are accepted will receive Total Consideration including an early tender payment of $30 per $1,000 principal, plus accrued interest, with settlement expected on September 24, 2026.