Talk:CenterPoint Energy

Challenge of uncited allegation

This newbie wants to follow protocol, so I'm raising a question in this forum about a recently posted edit under the Hurricane Ike Power Outage section. Specifically the paragraph reading "Currently, Center Point Energy employs rogue agencies and companies to force conversion to their energy providing service, without consent from the consumer. The company will continue the harassment after the consumer has switched back to their chosen provider." If I understand this claim, it is factually incorrect (and in fact impossible). In the deregulated Texas electric market, CenterPoint Energy is an electric Transmission and Distribution Service Provider (TDSP), which owns the power lines and poles, reads meters, and restores power when it goes out, but does NOT sell electricity. CNP delivers electricity on behalf of dozens of Retail Electric Providers (REPs), from which Houston-area consumers can freely choose. So no matter which REP sells electricity to a consumer, CenterPoint Energy delivers it. Consumers can change REPs whenever they like, but CenterPoint Energy is the sole TDSP in the Houston area. It makes sense for TDSPs to remain regulated monopolies since it would be impractical (and unsightly) to have dozens of sets of powerlines and poles. As an employee of CenterPoint Energy, I don't want to unilaterally remove that paragraph, but as I've noted, it is not only incorrect, but impossible, in addition to being uncited and not neutral in tone. CNPsteve (talk) 16:52, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Very good. You didn't know the technology or the rules but, being aware that there are rules, you showed respectful restraint. As it happens, direct action on your part would have made a problem with the WP:COI rule, given your connection with the subject company. We have many rules, guidelines and official recommendations, including WP:Assume good faith which is easier when good faith is manifest despite unawareness of one of those other rules.

Most articles are on the Help:Watching pages Watchlist of several watchers, but sometimes a bad (and anonymous) edit like this one escapes the attention of watchers. The WP:Edit history of an article shows when information was added and subtracted and by whom. You can watch this and any other articles; I've got 6114 articles on my watchlist and this one will make it 6115. Jim.henderson (talk) 17:38, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

SEC info

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/containers/fix062/1130310/000095012902005975/h01463exv99wc1.txt http://www.webcitation.org/6OpVaRJEU WhisperToMe (talk) 14:20, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Two factual updates and two suggestions for improvement

First, COI disclosure: I, CNPsteve, am an employee of CenterPoint Energy. I've read the guidelines and eager to comply. I would like to draw your attention to two small factual issues: (1) the number of employees cited (8,720) is from our 2012 annual report rather than the 2013 annual report. The number of employees as of 12/31/13, as cited in our 2013 Annual Report(http://www.centerpointenergy.com/annualreports/2013/html/img/download/2013_CenterPoint_AR_Summary.pdf) is 8,591. (2)In the History section, we have the date of discontinuing legacy company names as 12/1/2004 according to our company timeline (http://www.centerpointenergy.com/about/companyoverview/companyhistory/timeline/e5d0a527ec476210VgnVCM10000026a10d0aRCRD/)rather than 12/15/2004.

If I may also offer two proposals for improving the article,(1)you might consider adding a section on the formation of Enable Midsteam Partners LP in 2013 which combined our former pipelines and field services businesses with the midstream business of Enogex LLC. We have several press releases on the partnership at http://www.centerpointenergy.com/newsroom/newsreleases/pipelines/, and there ought to be plenty of third party public information on Enable as well. Finally, (2)In the Criticism section, we hope you would consider balancing the tax allegation with our response (http://www.centerpointenergy.com/staticfiles/CNP/Common/SiteAssets/doc/CenterPoint%20Energy%20Response%20to%20Citizens%20for%20Tax%20Justice%20_4%2016%202014.pdf) or our official audited financial statements for 2008-2012, which must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and must reflect the company’s actual tax liability at http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/HOU/1480240328x0xS1130310-14-5/1130310/filing.pdf . In our year-end 2013 SEC filing, we reported an audited effective tax rate of 60%.

Thanks for your consideration. CNPsteve (talk) 19:49, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

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