Multi-state electric and gas utility serving 7 million customers across four states
CenterPoint Energy operates electric and natural gas delivery infrastructure across Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Texas, serving approximately 7 million metered customers. The company is mid-cycle through a SAP modernization (adopting S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Concur) while simultaneously building grid intelligence via lidar and satellite platforms—a pattern that suggests parallel investment in both back-office ERP standardization and operational technology that can drive reliability and compliance reporting. Active hiring across engineering and operations reflects execution intensity around distribution integrity, substation deployment, and automation infrastructure.
Notable leadership hires: Tax Director
CenterPoint Energy is a publicly traded multi-state utility headquartered in Houston, Texas, with approximately 8,300 employees and $44 billion in assets. The company delivers electricity and natural gas to roughly 7 million customers across Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Texas. Operations center on distribution network integrity, new load planning, substation development, and automation using infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform). The technology stack spans legacy industrial systems (SCADA, PLC, IEC 61850 controls) and modern cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure, AWS), complemented by geospatial analysis (GIS, LiDAR, satellite imagery) for asset visibility and compliance.
Core systems include SAP (adopting S/4HANA), GIS, SCADA, PLC, and IEC 61850 industrial controls. Cloud: GCP, Azure, AWS. Infrastructure-as-code: Ansible, Terraform. Analytics: Python, R, SQL. Monitoring: Dynatrace. Emerging: LiDAR and satellite-based intelligence platform.
CenterPoint Energy serves approximately 7 million metered customers across Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Texas. Headquartered in Houston, it is the only Texas-domiciled investor-owned utility.
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