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Tom Standish is CenterPoint Energy’s CenterPoint Energy’s Group President of Regulated Operations and a registered professional engineer who actively supports his community. He is the immediate past chairman of the board of directors for the Greater Houston Area American Red Cross, a current member and past chairman of the Salvation Army Houston Area Command, a member of the board of directors for the University of St. Thomas and Rebuilding Together Houston (formerly PSI Homesavers), and a former board member of the Houston chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Tom is responsible for CenterPoint Energy’s regulated electric transmission and distribution system and regulated natural gas operations.  CenterPoint Energy’s electric transmission and distribution utility maintains the wires, poles and electric infrastructure serving over 2 million customers in a 5,000-square-mile electric service territory in the Houston metropolitan area. The company’s natural gas distribution businesses sell and deliver natural gas to 3.2 million homes and businesses in Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas, including Houston and Minneapolis. CenterPoint Energy also owns and operates two interstate natural gas pipeline systems with more than 8,000 miles of pipe in the mid-continent area; gathers, treats and processes natural gas; and sells non rate-regulated natural gas and related services to nearly 10,000 commercial, industrial and wholesale customers located primarily in the eastern half of the United States.
CenterPoint Energy is grateful for the opportunity to show our support for the community while helping take care of one of our own. Following Hurricane Ike, Larry Beach and our other linemen (with help from 35 states and Canada) worked 16-hour shifts for 18 straight days to restore power to more than 2 million Houston area residents. While CenterPoint Energy maintains a program to help the families of our first responders whose own homes sustain damage in an emergency so they can concentrate on restoring electricity to their neighbors, the destruction by Ike of the home where Larry and Melissa Beach cared for their 13 children, including several with special needs, presented a unique challenge. We are grateful for the aid and support others are providing our employee as together our community continues to recover from the lasting effects of this disaster.
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