The post-storm power outages played a contributing factor in at least ten deaths related to excess heat or nonfunctional medical equipment, bringing significant criticism towards the Houston-based utility company, CenterPoint Energy.

On July 10, nineteen shelters housing 641 occupants were set up by FEMA, while about twenty cooling centers were established to mitigate heat-related symptoms.

An elderly woman in Fort Bend County became disoriented after walking out into the storm, causing her to fall into a pool and drown.

A 77-year-old man drowned after trying to drive over a curb on a bridge over White Oak Bayou to avoid flood waters, whose current pushed the car on its side and submerged it.

Two more people died in Harris County due to carbon monoxide poisoning while running generators in their homes.

CenterPoint’s Outage Tracker was taken offline in May 2024 due to a derecho striking the Houston area, which remained down after Beryl struck and gave customers no gauge on when or where power would return.

CenterPoint stated in a July 7 email that it planned to replace its Outage Tracker with “a redesigned cloud-based platform” that could take in more web traffic, while still not giving current and detailed information to customers.

[3] The power outages and resulting lack of air conditioning significantly exacerbated the effects of hot temperatures and high humidity creating triple digit heat indexes across the greater Houston.

[23] Catholic workers in the Galveston-Houston Archdiocese were unable to provide aid following the storm due to power outages impacting their technical and staffing programs, while Knights of Columbus reported communication and internet difficulties.

[18] Power outages hindered operations and transport at liquefied natural gas company Freeport LNG.

He stated that the biggest difficulty was restoring power to lines and towers destroyed or damaged by fallen trees or branches.

He denied suggestions to employ third-party workers to stay in the storm in order to get power running quicker as unsafe.

[17] Biden gave condolences to Houston Mayor John Whitmire to people who lost their lives in the storm, and stated that FEMA and the US Coast Guard were ready to be mobilized to wherever they were needed.

[8] Former engineer and senior advisor to Consolidated Edison Wei Du stated that a Category 1 hurricane causing over one million power outages indicated a significant need for "resiliency hardening investments".

[3] Carnegie Mellon University Institute for Energy Innovation leader Costa Samaras emphasized the risk to vulnerable people caused by power outages, requiring power grids to be able to withstand multiple concurrent climate-amplified severe weather events in order to protect lives.