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STATEMENTS OF CONSOLIDATED INCOME - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
STATEMENTS OF CONSOLIDATED INCOME - USD ($) $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2009	Dec. 31, 2008	Dec. 31, 2007
Income Statement [Abstract]
Revenues	$ 8,281	$ 11,322	$ 9,623
Expenses:
Natural gas	4,371	7,466	5,995
Operation and maintenance	1,664	1,502	1,440
Depreciation and amortization	743	708	631
Taxes other than income taxes	379	373	372
Total	7,157	10,049	8,438
Operating Income	1,124	1,273	1,185
Other Income (Expense):
Gain (loss) on marketable securities	82	(139)	(114)
Gain (loss) on indexed debt securities	(68)	128	111
Interest and other finance charges	(513)	(468)	(509)
Interest on transition and system restoration bonds	(131)	(136)	(123)
Distribution from AOL Time Warner litigation settlement	3	0	32
Additional distribution to ZENS holders	(3)	0	(27)
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates	15	51	16
Other, net	39	14	17
Total	(576)	(550)	(597)
Income Before Income Taxes	548	723	588
Income tax expense	(176)	(277)	(193)
Net Income	$ 372	$ 446	$ 395
Basic Earnings Per Share	$ 1.02	$ 1.32	$ 1.23
Diluted Earnings Per Share	$ 1.01	$ 1.30	$ 1.15

STATEMENTS OF CONSOLIDATED COMPREHENSIVE INCOME - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2009	Dec. 31, 2008	Dec. 31, 2007
Statement of Income and Comprehensive Income [Abstract]
Net Income	$ 372	$ 446	$ 395
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Adjustment to pension and other postretirement plans (net of tax of $28, $32 and $2)	7	(79)	34
Net deferred gain (loss) from cash flow hedges (net of tax of $6, $2 and $-0-)	0	(4)	11
Reclassification of deferred gain from cash flow hedges realized in net income (net of tax of $14, $2 and $-0-)	0	(4)	(20)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	7	(87)	25
Comprehensive income	$ 379	$ 359	$ 420

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS - USD ($) $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2009	Dec. 31, 2008
Current Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 740	$ 167
Investment in marketable securities	300	218
Accounts receivable, net	790	1,009
Accrued unbilled revenues	485	541
Inventory	327	569
Non-trading derivative assets	39	118
Prepaid expense and other current assets	223	413
Total current assets	2,904	3,035
Property, Plant and Equipment, net	10,788	10,296
Other Assets:
Goodwill	1,696	1,696
Regulatory assets	3,677	3,684
Non-trading derivative assets	15	20
Investment in unconsolidated affiliates	463	345
Notes receivable from unconsolidated affiliates	0	323
Other	230	277
Total other assets	6,081	6,345
Total Assets	19,773	19,676
Current Liabilities:
Short-term borrowings	55	153
Current portion of transition and system restoration bonds long-term debt	241	208
Current portion of indexed debt	121	117
Current portion of other long-term debt	541	8
Indexed debt securities derivative	201	133
Accounts payable	648	897
Taxes accrued	148	189
Interest accrued	181	180
Non-trading derivative liabilities	51	87
Accumulated deferred income taxes, net	406	372
Other	445	504
Total current liabilities	3,038	2,848
Other Liabilities:
Accumulated deferred income taxes, net	2,776	2,608
Unamortized investment tax credits	16	24
Non-trading derivative liabilities	42	47
Benefit obligations	861	849
Regulatory liabilities	921	821
Other	361	276
Total other liabilities	4,977	4,625
Long-term Debt:
Transition and system restoration bonds	2,805	2,381
Other	6,314	7,800
Total long-term debt	$ 9,119	10,181
Commitments and C...
Shareholders' Equity	$ 2,639	2,022
Total Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity	$ 19,773	$ 19,676

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOWS - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2009	Dec. 31, 2008	Dec. 31, 2007
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
Net Income	$ 372	$ 446	$ 395
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization	743	708	631
Amortization of deferred financing costs	37	29	69
Deferred income taxes	269	487	0
Unrealized loss (gain) on marketable securities	(82)	139	114
Unrealized loss (gain) on indexed debt securities	68	(128)	(111)
Write-down of natural gas inventory	6	30	11
Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates, net of distributions	(3)	(51)	(13)
Changes in other assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable and unbilled revenues, net	283	(82)	0
Inventory	236	(109)	(102)
Accounts payable	(237)	87	(185)
Fuel cost over (under) recovery	(5)	45	(93)
Non-trading derivatives, net	28	(25)	11
Margin deposits, net	116	(182)	65
Interest and taxes accrued	(41)	(118)	(33)
Net regulatory assets and liabilities	0	(366)	81
Other current assets	27	(27)	13
Other current liabilities	6	29	(20)
Other assets	(1)	(20)	(20)
Other liabilities	3	(8)	(51)
Other, net	16	(33)	12
Net cash provided by operating activities	1,841	851	774
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
Capital expenditures	(1,160)	(1,020)	(1,114)
Decrease (increase) in restricted cash of transition and system restoration bond companies	26	(11)	(1)
Decrease (increase) in notes receivable from unconsolidated affiliates	323	(175)	(148)
Investment in unconsolidated affiliates	(115)	(206)	(39)
Other, net	30	44	2
Net cash used in investing activities	(896)	(1,368)	(1,300)
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
Increase (decrease) in short-term borrowings, net	(98)	(79)	45
Revolving credit facilities, net	(1,441)	1,110	331
Proceeds from long-term debt	1,165	1,088	900
Payments of long-term debt	(222)	(1,373)	(548)
Debt issuance costs	(10)	(26)	(9)
Payment of common stock dividends	(276)	(246)	(218)
Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net	504	80	22
Other, net	6	1	5
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities	(372)	555	528
Net Increase in Cash and Cash Equivalents	573	38	2
Cash and Cash Equivalents at Beginning of Year	167	129	127
Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of Year	740	167	129
Cash Payments:
Interest, net of capitalized interest	624	586	572
Income taxes (refunds), net	(9)	(84)	205
Non-cash transactions:
Accounts payable related to capital expenditures	$ 84	$ 96	$ 75

STATEMENTS OF CONSOLIDATED SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2009	Dec. 31, 2008	Dec. 31, 2007
Statement [Line Items]
Balance, beginning of year	$ 2,022	$ 1,811
Net Income	372	446	$ 395
Balance, end of year	2,639	2,022	1,811
Common Stock [Member]
Statement [Line Items]
Balance, beginning of year	$ 3	$ 3	$ 3
Balance, beginning of year (in shares)	346	323	314
Issuances related to benefit and investment plans	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0
Issuances related to benefit and investment plans (in shares)	7	6	2
Issuances related to convertible debt conversions	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0
Issuances related to convertible debt conversions (in shares)	0	17	7
Issuances related to public offerings	$ 1	$ 0	$ 0
Issuances related to public offerings (in shares)	38	0	0
Balance, end of year	$ 4	$ 3	$ 3
Balance, end of year (in shares)	391	346	323
Additional Paid-in Capital [Member]
Statement [Line Items]
Balance, beginning of year	$ 3,158	$ 3,046	$ 2,977
Cumulative effect of adoption of convertible debt pronouncement (See Note 2(o))	0	0	23
Balance, beginning of year (as adjusted)	3,158	3,046	3,000
Issuances related to benefit and investment plans	86	112	46
Issuances related to public offerings, net of issuance costs	427	0	0
Balance, end of year	3,671	3,158	3,046
Accumulated Deficit [Member]
Statement [Line Items]
Balance, beginning of year	(1,008)	(1,194)	(1,355)
Cumulative effect of adoption of convertible debt pronouncement (See Note 2(o))	0	0	(18)
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle (see Note 2(p))	0	(15)	0
Balance, beginning of year (as adjusted)	(1,008)	(1,209)	(1,373)
Net Income	372	446	395
Cumulative effect of uncertain tax positions standard	0	0	2
Common stock dividends - $0.68 per share in 2007, $0.73 per share in 2008, and $0.76 per share in 2009	(276)	(245)	(218)
Balance, end of year	(912)	(1,008)	(1,194)
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss [Member]
Statement [Line Items]
Balance, beginning of year	(131)	(44)
Adjustment to pension and postretirement	(120)	(127)	(48)
Net deferred gain (loss) from cash flow hedges	(4)	(4)	4
Balance, end of year	$ (124)	$ (131)	$ (44)

(1) Background	12 Months Ended
(1) Background	Dec. 31, 2009
Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]
Background	div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(1)#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;Background/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (CenterPoint Energy) is a public utility holding company. CenterPoint Energy#8217;s operating subsidiaries own and operate electric transmission and distribution facilities, natural gas distribution facilities, interstate pipelines and natural gas gathering, processin g and treating facilities. As of December#160;31, 2009, CenterPoint Energy#8217;s indirect wholly owned subsidiaries included:/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="hangingindent_0" width="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr valign="top" td style="WIDTH: 25.2pt" divfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160; /font/div /td td style="WIDTH: 18pt" div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#8226;/font/div /td td div align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC (CenterPoint Houston), which engages in the electric transmission and distribution business in a 5,000-square mile area of the Texas Gulf Coast that includes the city of Houston;#160;and/font/div /td /tr/table /div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="hangingindent_1" width="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr valign="top" td style="WIDTH: 25.2pt" divfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160; /font/div /td td style="WIDTH: 18pt" div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#8226;/font/div /td td div align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp. (CERC Corp. and, together with its subsidiaries, CERC), which owns and operates natural gas distribution systems in six states. Subsidiaries of CERC own interstate natural gas pipelines and gas gathering systems and provide various ancillary services. A wholly owned subsidiary of CERC Corp. offers variable and fixed-price physical natural gas supplies primarily to commercial and industrial customers and electric and gas utilities./font/div /td /tr/table /div div style="DISPLAY: blo ck; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"For a description of CenterPoint Energy#8217;s reportable business segments, see Note#160;14./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div /div

(2) Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	12 Months Ended
(2) Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	Dec. 31, 2009
Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]
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Actual results could differ from those estimates./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(b) Principles of Consolidation/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TE XT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"The accounts of CenterPoint Energy and its wholly owned and majority owned subsidiaries are included in the consolidated financial statements. All intercompany transactions and balances are eliminated in consolidation. CenterPoint Energy uses the equity method of accounting for investments in entities in which CenterPoint Energy has an ownership interest between 20% and 50% and exercises significant influence. CenterPoint Energy#8217;s investments in unconsolidated affiliates include a 50% ownership interest in Southeast Supply Header, LLC (SESH) which owns and operates a 270-mile interstate natural gas pipeline and a 50% interest in Waskom Gas Processing Company, a Texas general partnership, which owns and operates a natural gas processing plant.#160;#160;Other investments, excluding marketable securities, are carried at cost.#160;font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"During 2009, CenterPoint Energy invested $137 million in SESH and received a capital distribution of $23 million from SESH./font/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(c) Revenues/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy records revenue for electricity delivery and natural gas sales and services under the accrual method and these revenues are recognized upon delivery to customers. 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The impairment evaluation for goodwill is performed by using a two-step process. In the first step, the fair value of each reporting unit is compared with the carrying amount of the reporting unit, including goodwill. The estimated fair value of the reporting unit is generally determined on the basis of discounted future cash flows. If the estimated fair value of the reporting unit is less than the carrying amount of the reporting unit, then a second step must be completed in order to determine the amount of the goodwill impairment that should be recorded. In the second step, the implied fair value of the reporting unit#8217;s goodwill is determined by allocating the reporting unit#8217;s fair value to all of its assets and liabilities other than goodwill (including any unrecognized intangib le assets) in a manner similar to a purchase price allocation. 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A derivative may be designated as a normal purchase or normal sale if the intent is to physically receive or deliver the product for use or sale in the normal course of business./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160;/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy has a Risk Oversight Committee composed of corporate and business segment officers t hat oversees all commodity price, weather and credit risk activities, including CenterPoint Energy#8217;s marketing, risk management services and hedging activities. The committee#8217;s duties are to establish CenterPoint Energy#8217;s commodity risk policies, allocate board-approved commercial risk limits, approve use of new products and commodities, monitor positions and ensure compliance with CenterPoint Energy#8217;s risk management policies and procedures and limits established by CenterPoint Energy#8217;s board of directors./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy#8217;s policies prohibit the use of leveraged financial instruments. A leveraged financial instrument, for this purpose, is a transaction involving a derivative whose financial impact will be based on an amount other than the notional amount or volume of the instrument./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(l) Investments in Other Debt and Equity Securities/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy reports "trading" securities at estimated fair value in its Consolidated Balance Sheets, and any unrealized holding gains and losses are recorded as other inco me (expense) in its Statements of Consolidated Income./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"As of December#160;31, 2008 and 2009, CenterPoint Energy held investments in Time Warner Inc. (TW) related securities, which were classified as "trading" securities. For information regarding these investments, see Note#160;6./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(m) Environmental Costs/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy expenses or capitalizes environmental expenditures, as appropriate, depending on their future economic benefit. CenterPoint Energy expenses amounts that relate to an existing condition caused by past operations that do not have future economic benefit. CenterPoint Energy records undiscounted liabilities related to these future costs when environmental assessments and/or remediation activities are probable and the costs can be reasonably estimated./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(n) Statements of Consolidated Cash Flows/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"For purposes of reporting cash flows, CenterPoint Energy considers cash equivalents to be short-term, highly liquid investments with maturities of three months or less from the date of purchase. In connection with the issuance of transition bonds in October 2001, December 2005 and February 2008 and system restoration bonds in November 2009, CenterPoint Energy was required to establish restricted cash accounts to collateralize the bonds that were issued in these financing transactions. These restricted cash accounts are not available for withdrawal until the maturity of the bonds and are not included in cash and cash equivalent s. These restricted cash accounts of $60#160;million and $34#160;million at December#160;31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, are included in other current assets in CenterPoint Energy's Consolidated Balance Sheets. For additional information regarding transition and system restoration bonds, see Notes#160;3(a), 3(b) and 8(b). Cash and cash equivalents includes $166#160;million and $151#160;million at December#160;31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, that is held by CenterPoint Energy#8217;s transition and system restoration bond subsidiaries solely to support servicing the transition and system restoration bonds./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(o) New Accounting Pro nouncements/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Effective January 1, 2009, CenterPoint Energy adopted new accounting guidance which requires enhanced disclosures of derivative instruments and hedging activities such as the fair value of derivative instruments and presentation of their gains or losses in tabular format, as well as disclosures regarding credit risks and strategies and objectives for using derivative instruments.#160;#160;These disclosures are included as part of CenterPoint Energy#8217;s Derivatives Instruments footnote (see Note 4)./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18p t; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Effective January 1, 2009, CenterPoint Energy adopted new accounting guidance for convertible debt instruments that may be settled in cash upon conversion (including partial cash settlement) which changed the accounting treatment for convertible securities that the issuer may settle fully or partially in cash and which required retrospective application to all periods presented. Under this new guidance, cash settled convertible securities are separated into their debt and equity components. The value assigned to the debt component is the estimated fair value, as of the issuance date, of a similar debt instrument without the conversion feature, and the difference /fontfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"between the proceeds for the convertible debt and the amount reflected as a debt liability is recorded as additional paid - -in capital. As a result, the debt is recorded at a discount reflecting its below-market coupon interest rate. The debt is then subsequently accreted to its par value over its expected life, with the rate of interest that reflects the market rate at issuance being reflected on the income statement. CenterPoint Energy currently has no convertible debt that is within the scope of this new guidance, but did during prior periods presented.#160; The required retrospective implementation of this new guidance had a non-cash effect on net income for prior periods and the Consolidated Balance Sheets when CenterPoint Energy had contingently convertible debt outstanding. The effect on net income for the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2008 was a decrease in net income of $4#160;million, or $0.02 per basic and diluted share, and $1#160;million, or $0.01 per basic share and no change per diluted share, respectively. The implementation effect on the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 3 1, 2008 increased Additional Paid-In-Capital and Accumulated Deficit by $23#160;million./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Effective January 1, 2009, CenterPoint Energy adopted new accounting guidance on employers#8217; disclosures about postretirement benefit plan assets which expands the disclosures about employers#8217; plan assets to include more detailed disclosures about the employers#8217; investment strategies, major categories of plan assets, concentrations of risk within plan assets and valuation techniques used to measure the fair value of plan assets. See Note 2(p) below for the required disclosures./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div ; div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Effective June 30, 2009, CenterPoint Energy adopted new accounting guidance on interim disclosures about fair value of financial instruments which expands the fair value disclosures required for all financial instruments to interim periods. This new guidance also requires entities to disclose in interim periods the methods and significant assumptions used to estimate the fair value of financial instruments. CenterPoint Energy#8217;s adoption of this new guidance did not have a material impact on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline ; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Effective June 30, 2009, CenterPoint Energy adopted new accounting guidance on subsequent events that establishes general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are issued or are available to be issued. CenterPoint Energy#8217;s adoption of this new guidance did not have a material impact on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows. See Note 15 for the subsequent event related disclosures./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Effective July 1, 2009, CenterPoint Energy adopted new accounting guidance on the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (Codification) and the hierarchy of generally accepted accounting principles.#160;#160;This new accounting guidance establishes the Codification as the source of authoritative U.S. generally accepted accounting principles recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities.#160; Rules#160;and interpretive releases of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants.#160;CenterPoint Energy#8217;s adoption of this new guidance did not have any impact on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In June 2009, the FASB issued new accounting guidance on consolidation of variable int erest entities (VIEs) that changes how a reporting entity determines a primary beneficiary that would consolidate the VIE from a quantitative risk and rewards approach to a qualitative approach based on which variable interest holder has the power to direct the economic performance related activities of the VIE as well as the obligation to absorb losses or right to receive benefits that could potentially be significant to the VIE. This new guidance requires the primary beneficiary assessment to be performed on an ongoing basis and also requires enhanced disclosures that will provide more transparency about a company#8217;s involvement in a VIE. This new guidance is effective for a reporting entity#8217;s first annual reporting period that begins after November 15, 2009.#160;CenterPoint Energy expects that the adoption of this new guidance will not have a material impact on its financial position, results of operations or cash flows./font/div div style="DIS PLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In January 2010, the FASB issued new accounting guidance to require additional fair value related disclosures including transfers into and out of Levels 1 and 2 and separate disclosures about purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements relating to Level 3 measurements. It also clarifies existing fair value disclosure guidance about the level of disaggregation and about inputs and valuation techniques. This new guidance is effective for the first reporting period beginning after December 15, 2009. CenterPoint Energy expects that the adoption of this new guidance will not have a material impact on its financial position, results of operation or cash flows./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"font styl e="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160;/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Management believes the impact of other recently issued standards, which are not yet effective, will not have a material impact on CenterPoint Energy#8217;s consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows upon adoption./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(p) Stock-Based Incentive Compensation Plans and Employee Benefit Plans/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Stock-Based Incentive Compensation Plans/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy has long-term incentive plans (LTIPs) that provide for the issuance of stock-based incentives, including stock options, performance awards, restricted stock unit awards and restricted and unrestricted stock awards to officers and key employees.#160; Approximately 21#160;million shares of CenterPoint Energy common stock are authorized to be issued under these plans. /font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Equity awards are granted to employees without cost to the participants. The performance awards granted in 2007, 2008 and 2009 are distributed based upon the achievement of certain objectives over a three-year performance cycle. The stock awards granted in 2007, 2008 and 2009 are subject to the operational condition that total common dividends declared during the three-year vesting period must be at least $2.04, $2.19 and $2.28#160;per share, respectively. The stock awards generally vest at the end of a three-year period. Upon vesting, both the performance and stock awards are issued to the participants along with the value of dividend equivalents earned over the performance cycle or vesting peri od. CenterPoint Energy issues new shares in order to satisfy share-based payments related to LTIPs./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Stock options are generally granted with an exercise price equal to the average of the high and low sales price of CenterPoint Energy#8217;s stock at the date of grant. These stock options generally become exercisable in one-third increments on each of the first through third anniversaries of the grant date and have 10-year contractual terms. No stock options were granted during 2007, 2008 and 2009./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" ali gn="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy recorded LTIP compensation expense of $10#160;million, $10#160;million and $15#160;million for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively.#160;#160;This expense is included in Operation and Maintenance Expense in the Statements of Consolidated Income./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"The total income tax benefit recognized related to LTIPs was $4#160;million, $4#160;million and $6#160;million in the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. No compensation cost related to LTIPs was capitalized as a part of inventory or fixed assets in 2007, 20 08 or 2009./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"The actual tax benefit realized for tax deductions related to LTIPs totaled $7#160;million, $5#160;million and $6#160;million, for 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify" div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Compensation costs for the performance and stock awards granted under LTIPs are measured using fair valu e and expected achievement levels on the grant date.#160;#160;The fair value of awards granted to employees after April 2009 are based on the closing stock price of CenterPoint Energy#8217;s common stock on the grant date.#160;#160;The fair value of awards granted prior to May 2009 are based on the average of the high and low stock price of CenterPoint Energy#8217;s common stock on the grant date. 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MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"The fair values of CenterPoint Energy#8217;s postretirement plan assets at December 31, 2009, by asset category are as follows:/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div align="center" table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr td valign="bottom" width="44%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"#160; /font/td td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"#160;/font/td td colspan="14" valign="bottom" width="54%" style="BORDER-BOTTOM: black 2px solid" div style="DISPL AY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"Fair Value Measurements at December 31, 2009/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"(in millions)/font/div /td td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width="1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"#160;/font/td /trtr td valign="bottom" width="44%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"#160; /font/td td valign="bottom" width="1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"#160;/font/td td colspan="2" valign="bottom" width="12%" style="BORDER-BOTTOM: black 2px solid" div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"font style="DISPLAY: inline; 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As of December#160;31, 2009, 21,320,436 shares of CenterPoint Energy#82 17;s common stock were held by the savings plan, which represented approximately 23% of its investments. Given the concentration of the investments in CenterPoint Energy#8217;s common stock, the savings plan and its participants have market risk related to this investment./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy#8217;s savings plan benefit expenses were $35#160;million, $39#160;million and $31#160;million in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"#160;/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bol d; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Postemployment Benefits/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy provides postemployment benefits for former or inactive employees, their beneficiaries and covered dependents, after employment but before retirement (primarily healthcare and life insurance benefits for participants in the long-term disability plan). The Company recorded postemployment benefit income of $2#160;million, $1#160;million and $-0- in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" al ign="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Included in "Benefit Obligations" in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets at December#160;31, 2008 and 2009 was $32#160;million and $29#160;million, respectively, relating to postemployment obligations./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Other Non-Qualified Plans/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy has no n-qualified deferred compensation plans that provide benefits payable to directors, officers and certain key employees or their designated beneficiaries at specified future dates, upon termination, retirement or death. Benefit payments are made from the general assets of CenterPoint Energy. During 2007, 2008 and 2009, CenterPoint Energy recorded benefit expense relating to these plans of $7#160;million, $4#160;million and $6#160;million, respectively. Included in "Benefit Obligations" in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets at December#160;31, 2008 and 2009 was $83#160;million and $79#160;million, respectively, relating to deferred compensation plans./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Effective Ja nuary 1, 2008, CenterPoint Energy adopted new guidance on accounting for deferred compensation and postretirement benefit aspects of endorsement split-dollar life insurance arrangements which required CenterPoint Energy to recognize the effect of implementation through a cumulative effect adjustment to retained earnings or other components of equity as of the beginning of the year of adoption.#160; CenterPoint Energy calculated the impact as negligible at the time of adoption on January 1, 2008.#160;#160;During 2009, CenterPoint Energy determined that its adoption calculation had omitted the impact that increasing future premium costs would have on the liability and, therefore, it recorded as a cumulative effect adjustment a $15#160;million correction to increase other non-current liabilities and accumulated deficit as of January 1, 2008.#160;#160;The effect of the correction is not material to CenterPoint Energy#8217;s previously issued financial statements and did not affect CenterPoint Energy#8217;s results of operations or cash flows.#160;#160;Included in Benefit Obligations in CenterPoint Energy#8217;s Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2008 and 2009 was $16#160;million and $19#160;million, respectively, relating to split-dollar life insurance arrangements./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Change in Control Agreements and Other Employee Matters/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAM ILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy has agreements with certain of its officers that generally provide, to the extent applicable, in the case of a change in control of CenterPoint Energy and termination of employment, for severance benefits of up to three times annual base salary plus bonus, and other benefits. These agreements are for a one-year term with automatic renewal unless action is taken by CenterPoint Energy#8217;s board of directors prior to the renewal./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"As of December#160;31, 2009, approximately 30% of CenterPoint Energy#8217;s employees are subject to collective bargaining agreements. One of the collective bargaining agreements covering approximately 14% of CenterPoi nt Energy#8217;s employees, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Local No. 66, is scheduled to expire in May 2010. CenterPoint Energy has a good relationship with this bargaining unit and expects to negotiate a new agreement in 2010./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div /div

(3) Regulatory Matters	12 Months Ended
(3) Regulatory Matters	Dec. 31, 2009
Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]
Regulatory Matters	div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(3)#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;Regulatory Matters/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(a) Hurricane Ike/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Ti mes New Roman"CenterPoint Houston#8217;s electric delivery system suffered substantial damage as a result of Hurricane Ike, which struck the upper Texas coast in September#160;2008./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"As is common with electric utilities serving coastal regions, the poles, towers, wires, street lights and pole mounted equipment that comprise CenterPoint Houston#8217;s transmission and distribution system are not covered by property insurance, but office buildings and warehouses and their contents and substations are covered by insurance /fontfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"that provides for a maximum deductible of $10#160;million. Current estimates are that total losses to property covered by this insurance were approximately $30#160;million./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Houston deferred the uninsured system restoration costs as management believed it was probable that such costs would be recovered through the regulatory process. As a result, system restoration costs did not affect CenterPoint Energy#8217;s or CenterPoint Houston#8217;s reported operating income for 2008 or 2009./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 1 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Legislation enacted by the Texas Legislature in April 2009 authorized the Texas Utility Commission to conduct proceedings to determine the amount of system restoration costs and related costs associated with hurricanes or other major storms that utilities are entitled to recover, and to issue financing orders that would permit a utility like CenterPoint Houston to recover the distribution portion of those costs and related carrying costs through the issuance of non-recourse system restoration bonds similar to the securitization bonds issued previously.#160;#160;The legislation also allowed such a utility to recover, or defer for future recovery, the transmission portion of its system restoration costs through the existing mechanisms established to recover transmission costs./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18 pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Pursuant to such legislation, CenterPoint Houston filed with the Texas Utility Commission an application for review and approval for recovery of approximately $678#160;million, including approximately $608#160;million in system restoration costs identified as of the end of February 2009, plus $2#160;million in regulatory expenses, $13#160;million in certain debt issuance costs and $55#160;million in incurred and projected carrying costs calculated through August 2009. In July#160;2009, CenterPoint Houston announced a settlement agreement with the parties to the proceeding.#160;#160;Under that settlement agreement, CenterPoint Houston was entitled to recover a total of $663#160;million in costs relating to Hurricane Ike, along with carryingfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"#160;/fontcosts from Septe mber 1, 2009 until system restoration bonds were issued. The Texas Utility Commission issued an order in August 2009 approving CenterPoint Houston#8217;s application and the settlement agreement and authorizing recovery of $663#160;million, of which $643#160;million was attributable to distribution service and eligible for securitization and the remaining $20#160;million was attributable to transmission service and eligible for recovery through the existing mechanisms established to recover transmission costs./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In July 2009, CenterPoint Houston filed with the Texas Utility Commission its application for a financing order to recover the portion of approved costs related to distributi on service through the issuance of system restoration bonds.#160;#160;#160;In August 2009, the Texas Utility Commission issued a financing order allowing CenterPoint Houston to securitize $643#160;million in distribution service costs plus carrying charges from September#160;1, 2009 through the date the system restoration bonds were issued, as well as certain up-front qualified costs capped at approximately $6#160;million.#160;#160;In November 2009, CenterPoint Houston issued approximately $665#160;million of system restoration bonds through its CenterPoint Energy Restoration Bond Company, LLC subsidiary with interest rates of 1.833% to 4.243% and final maturity dates ranging from February 2016 to August 2023.#160;#160;The bonds will be repaid over time through a charge imposed on customers./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEF T: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In accordance with the financing order, CenterPoint Houston also placed a separate customer credit in effect when the storm restoration bonds were issued.#160;#160;That credit (ADFIT Credit) is applied to customers#8217; bills while the bonds are outstanding to reflect the benefit of accumulated deferred federal income taxes (ADFIT) associated with the storm restoration costs (including a carrying charge of 11.075%). The beginning balance of the ADFIT related to storm restoration costs was approximately $207#160;million and will decline over the life of the system restoration bonds as taxes are paid on the system restoration tariffs. The ADFIT Credit will reduce operating income in 2010 by approximately $24#160;million./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In accordance with the orders discussed above, as of December 31, 2009, CenterPoint Houston has recorded#160;$651#160;million associated with distribution-related storm restoration costs as a net regulatory asset and $20#160;million associated with transmission-related storm restoration costs, of which $18#160;million is recorded in property, plant and equipment and $2#160;million of related carrying costs is recorded in regulatory assets.#160;#160;#160;These amounts reflect carrying costs of $60#160;million related to distribution and $2#160;million related to transmission through December 31, 2009,#160;based on the 11.075% cost of capital approved by the Texas Utility Commission.#160; The carrying costs have been bifurcated into two components: (i ) return of borrowing costs and (ii) an allowance for earnings on shareholders#8217; investment.#160; During the year ended December 31, 2009, the component representing a return of borrowing costs of $23#160;million has been recognized and is included in other income in CenterPoint Energy#8217;s Statements of Consolidated Income.#160; The component representing an allowance for earnings on shareholders#8217; investment of $39#160;million is being deferred and will be recognized as it is collected through rates./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160;/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 1 0pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(b) Recovery of True-Up Balance/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 1"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In March 2004, CenterPoint Houston filed its true-up application with the Texas Utility Commission, requesting recovery of $3.7#160;billion, excluding interest, as allowed under the Texas Electric Choice Plan (Texas electric restructuring law). In December 2004, the Texas Utility Commission issued its final order (True-Up Order) allowing CenterPoint Houston to recover a true-up balance of approximately $2.3#160;billion, which included interest through August#160;31, 2004, and provided for adjustment of the amount to be recovered to include interest on the balance until recovery, alon g with the principal portion of additional excess mitigation credits (EMCs) returned to customers after August#160;31, 2004 and certain other adjustments./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Houston and other parties filed appeals of the True-Up Order to a district court in Travis County, Texas. In August 2005, that court issued its judgment on the various appeals. In its judgment, the district court:/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="hangingindent_0" width="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FON T-FAMILY: times new roman" tr valign="top" td style="WIDTH: 18pt" divfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160; /font/div /td td style="WIDTH: 18pt" div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#8226;/font/div /td td div align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"reversed the Texas Utility Commission#8217;s ruling that had denied recovery of a portion of the capacity auction true-up amounts;/font/div /td /tr/table /div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div ;div table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="hangingindent_1" width="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr valign="top" td style="WIDTH: 18pt" divfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160; /font/div /td td style="WIDTH: 18pt" div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#8226;/font/div /td td div align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"reversed the Texas Utility Commission#8217;s ruling that precluded CenterPoint Houston from recovering the interest component of the EM Cs paid to retail electric providers (REPs); and/font/div /td /tr/table /div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="hangingindent_2" width="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr valign="top" td style="WIDTH: 18pt" divfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160; /font/div /td td style="WIDTH: 18pt" div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#8226;/font/div /td td di v align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"affirmed the True-Up Order in all other respects./font/div /td /tr/table /div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"The district court#8217;s decision would have had the effect of restoring approximately $650#160;million, plus interest, of the $1.7#160;billion the Texas Utility Commission had disallowed from CenterPoint Houston#8217;s initial request./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify" ;font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Houston and other parties appealed the district court#8217;s judgment to the Texas Third#160;Court of Appeals, which issued its decision in December 2007. In its decision, the court of appeals:/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="hangingindent_3" width="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr valign="top" td style="WIDTH: 18pt" divfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160; /font/div /td td style="WIDTH: 18pt" div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"font style="D ISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#8226;/font/div /td td div align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"reversed the district court#8217;s judgment to the extent it restored the capacity auction true-up amounts;/font/div /td /tr/table /div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="hangingindent_4" width="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr valign="top" td style="WIDTH: 18pt" divfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160; /font/div /td td style="WIDTH: 18pt" div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#8226;/font/div /td td div align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"reversed the district court#8217;s judgment to the extent it upheld the Texas Utility Commission#8217;s decision to allow CenterPoint Houston to recover EMCs paid to RRI Energy, Inc. (RRI) (formerly known as Reliant Energy, Inc. and Reliant Resources, Inc.);/font/div /td /tr/table /div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="hangingindent_5" width ="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr valign="top" td style="WIDTH: 18pt" divfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160; /font/div /td td style="WIDTH: 18pt" div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#8226;/font/div /td td div align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"ordered that the tax normalization issue described below be remanded to the Texas Utility Commission as requested by the Texas Utility Commission; and/font/div /td /tr/table /div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="hangingindent_6" width="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr valign="top" td style="WIDTH: 18pt" divfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160; /font/div /td td style="WIDTH: 18pt" div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#8226;/font/div /td td div align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"affirmed the district court#8217;s judg ment in all other respects./font/div /td /tr/table /div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In April 2008, the court of appeals denied all motions for rehearing and reissued substantially the same opinion as it had rendered in December 2007./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In June 2008, CenterPoint Houston petitioned the Texas Supreme Court for review of the court of appeals decision. In its petition, CenterPoint Houston seek s reversal of the parts of the court of appeals decision that (i) denied recovery of EMCs paid to RRI, (ii) denied recovery of the capacity auction true-up amounts allowed by the district court, (iii) affirmed the Texas Utility Commission#8217;s rulings that denied recovery of approximately $378#160;million related to depreciation and (iv) affirmed the Texas Utility Commission#8217;s refusal to permit CenterPoint Houston to utilize the partial stock valuation methodology for determining the market value of its former generation assets. Two other petitions for review were filed with the Texas Supreme Court by other parties to the appeal. In those petitions parties contend that (i) the Texas Utility Commission was without authority to fashion the methodology it used for valuing the former generation assets after it had determined that CenterPoint Houston could not use the partial stock valuation method, (ii) in fashioning the method it used for valuing the former generating assets, the Texas Utility Commission deprived parties of their due process rights and an opportunity to be heard, (iii) the net book value of the generating assets should have been adjusted downward due to the impact of a purchase option that had been granted to RRI, (iv) CenterPoint Houston should not have been permitted to recover construction work in progress balances without proving those amounts in the manner required by law and (v) the Texas Utility Commission was without authority to award interest on the capacity auction true up award./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"#160;/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In June 2009, the Texas Supreme Court granted the petitions for review of th e court of appeals decision.#160;#160;Oral argument before the court was held in October 2009.#160;#160;Although CenterPoint Energy and CenterPoint Houston believe that CenterPoint Houston#8217;s true-up request is consistent with applicable statutes and regulations and, accordingly, that it is reasonably possible that it will be successful in its appeal to the Texas Supreme Court, CenterPoint Energy can provide no assurance as to the ultimate court rulings on the issues to be considered in the appeal or with respect to the ultimate decision by the Texas Utility Commission on the tax normalization issue described below./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"To reflect the impact of the True-Up Order, in 2004 and 2 005, CenterPoint Energy recorded a net after-tax extraordinary loss of $947#160;million. No amounts related to the district court#8217;s judgment or the decision of the court of appeals have been recorded in CenterPoint Energy#8217;s consolidated financial statements. However, if the court of appeals decision is not reversed or modified as a result of further review by the Texas Supreme Court, CenterPoint Energy anticipates that it would be required to record an additional loss to reflect the court of appeals decision. The amount of that loss would depend on several factors, including ultimate resolution of the tax normalization issue described below and the calculation of interest on any amounts CenterPoint Houston ultimately is authorized to recover or is required to refund beyond the amounts recorded based on the True-Up Order, but could range from $180#160;million to $410#160;million (pre-tax) plus interest subsequent to December#160;31, 2009./font/d iv div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In the True-Up Order, the Texas Utility Commission reduced CenterPoint Houston#8217;s stranded cost recovery by approximately $146#160;million, which was included in the extraordinary loss discussed above, for the present value of certain deferred tax benefits associated with its former electric generation assets. CenterPoint Energy believes that the Texas Utility Commission based its order on proposed regulations issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in March 2003 that would have allowed utilities owning assets that were deregulated before March#160;4, 2003 to make a retroactive election to pass the benefits of Accumulated Deferred Investment Tax Credits (ADITC) and Excess Deferred Federal Income Taxes (EDFIT) back to customers. However, the IRS subsequently withdrew those proposed normalization regulations and, in March 2008, adopted final regulations that would not permit utilities like CenterPoint Houston to pass the tax benefits back to customers without creating normalization violations. In addition, CenterPoint Energy received a Private Letter Ruling (PLR) from the IRS in August 2007, prior to adoption of the final regulations, that confirmed that the Texas Utility Commission#8217;s order reducing CenterPoint Houston#8217;s stranded cost recovery by $146#160;million for ADITC and EDFIT would cause normalization violations with respect to the ADITC and EDFIT./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"If the Texas U tility Commission#8217;s order relating to the ADITC reduction is not reversed or otherwise modified on remand so as to eliminate the normalization violation, the IRS could require CenterPoint Energy to pay an amount equal to CenterPoint Houston#8217;s unamortized ADITC balance as of the date that the normalization violation is deemed to have occurred. In addition, the IRS could deny CenterPoint Houston the ability to elect accelerated tax depreciation benefits beginning in the taxable year that the normalization violation is deemed to have occurred. Such treatment, if required by the IRS, could have a material adverse impact on CenterPoint Energy#8217;s results of operations, financial condition and cash flows in addition to any potential loss resulting from final resolution of the True-Up Order. In its opinion, the court of appeals ordered that this issue be remanded to the Texas Utility Commission, as that commission requested. No party has challenged that order by the court of appeals although the Texas Supreme Court has the authority to consider all aspects of the rulings above, not just those challenged specifically by the appellants. CenterPoint Energy and CenterPoint Houston will continue to pursue a favorable resolution of this issue through the appellate and administrative process. Although the Texas Utility Commission has not previously required a company subject to its jurisdiction to take action that would result in a normalization violation, no prediction can be made as to the ultimate action the Texas Utility Commission may take on this issue on remand./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"The Texas electric restructuring law allowed the amounts awarded to CenterPoint Houston in the Texas Utility Co mmission#8217;s True-Up Order to be recovered either through securitization or through implementation of a competition transition charge (CTC) or both. Pursuant to a financing order issued by the Texas Utility Commission in March 2005 and affirmed by a Travis County district court, in December 2005, a new special purpose subsidiary of CenterPoint Houston issued $1.85#160;billion in transition bonds with interest rates ranging from 4.84% to 5.30% and final maturity dates ranging from February 2011 to August 2020. Through issuance of the transition bonds, /fontfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Houston recovered approximately $1.7#160;billion of the true-up balance determined in the True-Up Order plus interest through the date on which the bonds were issued./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In July 2005, CenterPoint Houston received an order from the Texas Utility Commission allowing it to implement a CTC designed to collect the remaining $596#160;million from the True-Up Order over 14#160;years plus interest at an annual rate of 11.075% (CTC Order). The CTC Order authorized CenterPoint Houston to impose a charge on REPs to recover the portion of the true-up balance not recovered through a financing order. The CTC Order also allowed CenterPoint Houston to collect approximately $24#160;million of rate case expenses over three years without a return through a separate tariff rider (Rider RCE). CenterPoint Houston implemented the CTC and Rider RCE effective September#160;13, 2005 and began recovering approximately $620#160;million. The return on the CTC portion of the true-up balance was included in CenterPoint Houston #8217;s tariff-based revenues beginning September#160;13, 2005. Effective August#160;1, 2006, the interest rate on the unrecovered balance of the CTC was reduced from 11.075% to 8.06% pursuant to a revised rule adopted by the Texas Utility Commission in June 2006. Recovery of rate case expenses under Rider RCE was completed in September 2008./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Certain parties appealed the CTC Order to a district court in Travis County. In May 2006, the district court issued a judgment reversing the CTC Order in three respects. First, the court ruled that the Texas Utility Commission had improperly relied on provisions of its rule dealing with the interest rate applicable to CTC amounts. The district court reac hed that conclusion based on its belief that the Texas Supreme Court had previously invalidated that entire section of the rule. The 11.075% interest rate in question was applicable from the implementation of the CTC Order on September#160;13, 2005 until August#160;1, 2006, the effective date of the implementation of a new CTC in compliance with the revised rule discussed above. Second, the district court reversed the Texas Utility Commission#8217;s ruling that allows CenterPoint Houston to recover through Rider RCE the costs (approximately $5#160;million) for a panel appointed by the Texas Utility Commission in connection with the valuation of electric generation assets. Finally, the district court accepted the contention of one party that the CTC should not be allocated to retail customers that have switched to new on-site generation. The Texas Utility Commission and CenterPoint Houston appealed the district court#8217;s judgment to the Texas Third#160;Court of Ap peals, and in July 2008, the court of appeals reversed the district court#8217;s judgment in all respects and affirmed the Texas Utility Commission#8217;s order. Two parties appealed the court of appeals decision to the Texas Supreme Court which heard oral argument in October 2009. The ultimate outcome of this matter cannot be predicted at this time. However, CenterPoint Energy does not expect the disposition of this matter to have a material adverse effect on CenterPoint Energy#8217;s or CenterPoint Houston#8217;s financial condition, results of operations or cash flows./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"During the 2007 legislative session, the Texas legislature amended statutes prescribing the types of true-up bal ances that can be securitized by utilities and authorized the issuance of transition bonds to recover the balance of the CTC. In June 2007, CenterPoint Houston filed a request with the Texas Utility Commission for a financing order that would allow the securitization of the remaining balance of the CTC, adjusted to refund certain unspent environmental retrofit costs and to recover the amount of the final fuel reconciliation settlement. CenterPoint Houston reached substantial agreement with other parties to this proceeding, and a financing order was approved by the Texas Utility Commission in September 2007. In February 2008, pursuant to the financing order, a new special purpose subsidiary of CenterPoint Houston issued approximately $488#160;million of transition bonds in two tranches with interest rates of 4.192% and 5.234% and final maturity dates of February 2020 and February 2023, respectively. Contemporaneously with the issuance of those bonds, the CTC was terminated and a transition c harge was implemented. During the years ended December#160;31, 2007 and 2008, CenterPoint Houston recognized approximately $42#160;million and $5#160;million, respectively, in operating income from the CTC./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"As of December#160;31, 2009, CenterPoint Energy has not recognized an allowed equity return of $193#160;million on CenterPoint Houston#8217;s true-up balance because such return will be recognized as it is recovered in rates. During the years ended December#160;31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, CenterPoint Houston recognized approximately $14#160;million, $13#160;million and $13#160;million, respectively, of the allowed equity return not previously recognize d./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(c) Rate Proceedings/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic"Texas./font In March 2008, the natural gas distribution businesses of CERC (Gas Operations) filed a request to change its rates with the Railroad Commission of Texas (Railroad Commission) and the 47 cities in its Texas Coast service territory, an area consisting of approximately 230,000 c ustomers in cities and communities on the outskirts of /fontfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Houston. In 2008, Gas Operations implemented rates increasing annual revenues by approximately $3.5#160;million.#160; The implemented rates were contested by 9 cities in an appeal to the 353rd District Court in Travis County, Texas. In January 2010, that court reversed the Railroad Commission#8217;s order in part and remanded the matter to the Railroad Commission.#160; The court concluded that the Railroad Commission did not have statutory authority to impose on the complaining cities the cost of service adjustment mechanism which the Railroad Commission had approved in its order.#160; Certain parties filed a motion to modify the district court#8217;s judgment and a final decision is not expected until April 2010.#160; CenterPoint Energy and CERC do not expect the outcome of this matter to have a material adverse impact on the financial condition, results of operations or cash flows of either CenterPoint Energy or CERC./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify" div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In July 2009, Gas Operations filed a request to change its rates with the Railroad Commission and the 29 cities in its Houston service territory, consisting of approximately 940,000 customers in and around Houston. The request seeks to establish uniform rates, charges and terms and conditions of service for the cities and environs of the Houston service territory. As finally submitted to the Railroad Commission and the cities, the proposed new rates would result in an overall increas e in annual revenue of $20.4#160;million, excluding carrying costs on gas inventory of approximately $2 million. In January 2010, Gas Operations withdrew its request for an annual cost of service adjustment mechanism due to the uncertainty caused by the court#8217;s ruling in the above-mentioned Texas Coast appeal. In February 2010, the Railroad Commission issued its decision authorizing a revenue increase of $5.1 million annually, reflecting reduced depreciation rates of $1.2 million.#160;#160;The hearing examiner also recommended a surcharge of $0.9 million per year to recover Hurricane Ike costs over three years./font/div /div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In May 2009, CenterPoint Houston filed an applic ation at the Texas Utility Commission seeking approval of certain estimated 2010 energy efficiency program costs, an energy efficiency performance bonus for 2008 programs and carrying costs, totaling approximately $10#160;million. The application sought to begin recovery of these costs through a surcharge effective July 1, 2010. In October 2009, the Texas Utility Commission issued its order approving recovery of the 2010 energy efficiency program costs and a partial performance bonus, plus carrying costs, but refused to permit CenterPoint Houston to recover a performance bonus of $2#160;million on approximately $10#160;million in 2008 energy efficiency costs expended pursuant to the terms of a settlement agreement reached in CenterPoint Houston#8217;s 2006 rate proceeding.#160;#160;CenterPoint Houston has appealed the denial of the full 2008 performance bonus to the district court in Travis County, Texas, where the case remains pending./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic"Minnesota./font In November 2006, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) denied a request filed by Gas Operations for a waiver of MPUC rules in order to allow Gas Operations to recover approximately $21#160;million in unrecovered purchased gas costs related to periods prior to July#160;1, 2004. Those unrecovered gas costs were identified as a result of revisions to previously approved calculations of unrecovered purchased gas costs. Following that denial, Gas Operations recorded a $21#160;million adjustment to reduce pre-tax earnings in the fourth quarter of 2006 and reduced the regulatory asset related to these costs by an equal amount. In Ma rch 2007, following the MPUC#8217;s denial of reconsideration of its ruling, Gas Operations petitioned the Minnesota Court of Appeals for review of the MPUC#8217;s decision, and in May 2008 that court ruled that the MPUC had been arbitrary and capricious in denying Gas Operations a waiver. The MPUC sought further review of the court of appeals decision from the Minnesota Supreme Court.#160;#160;In July 2009, the Minnesota Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Minnesota Court of Appeals and upheld the MPUC#8217;s decision to deny the requested variance. The court#8217;s decision had no negative impact on CenterPoint Energy#8217;s or CERC#8217;s financial condition, results of operations or cash flows, as the costs at issue were written off at the time they were disallowed./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MAR GIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In November 2008, Gas Operations filed a request with the MPUC to increase its rates for utility distribution service by $59.8#160;million annually.#160; In addition, Gas Operations sought an adjustment mechanism that would annually adjust rates to reflect changes in use per customer.#160; In December 2008, the MPUC accepted the case and approved an interim rate increase of $51.2#160;million, which became effective on January 2, 2009, subject to refund. In January 2010, the MPUC issued its decision authorizing a revenue increase of $41#160;million per year, with an overall rate of return of 8.09% (10.24% return on equity).The difference between the rates approved by the MPUC and amounts collected under the interim rates, $10#160;million as of December 31, 2009, is recorded in other current liabilities and will be refunded to customers. The MPUC also a uthorized Gas Operations to implement a pilot program for residential and small volume commercial customers that is intended to decouple gas revenues from customers#8217; natural gas usage. In February 2010, CERC filed a request for rehearing of the order by the MPUC.#160;#160;No /fontfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"other party to the case filed such a request.#160;#160;CERC and CenterPoint Energy do not expect a final order to be issued in this proceeding until spring 2010./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic"Mississippi./font#160;#160;In July 2009, Gas Operations filed a request to increase its rates for utility distribution service with the Mississippi Public Service Commission (MPSC). In November 2009, as part of a settlement agreement in which the MPSC approved Gas Operations#8217; retention of the compensation paid under the terms of an asset management agreement, Gas Operations withdrew its rate request./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(d) Regulatory Accounting/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy has a 50% ownership interest in Southeast Supply Header, LLC (SESH) which owns and operates a 270-mile interstate natural gas pipeline.#160;#160;In 2009, SESH discontinued the use of guidance for accounting for regulated operations, which resulted in CenterPoint Energy recording its share of the effects of such write-offs of SESH#8217;s regulatory assets through non-cash pre-tax charges for the year ended December 31, 2009 of $16#160;million.#160;#160;These non-cash charges are reflected in equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates in the Statements of Consolidated Income.#160;#160;The related tax benefits of $6#160;million are reflected in the Income Tax Expense line in the Statements of Consolidated Income./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div /div

(4) Derivative Instruments	12 Months Ended
(4) Derivative Instruments	Dec. 31, 2009
Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]
Derivative Instruments	div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(4)#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;Derivative Instruments/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy is exposed to various market risks. These risks arise from transactions entered into in the normal course of business. CenterPoint Energy utilizes derivative instruments such as physical forward contracts, swaps and options to mitigate the impact of changes in commodity prices, weather and interest rates on its operating results and cash flows./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(a) Non-Trading Activities/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic"Derivative Instruments./font CenterPoint Energy enters into certain derivative instruments to manage physical commodity price risks and does not engage in proprietary or speculative commodity trading.#160;#160;These financial instruments do not qualify or are not designated as cash flow or fair value hedges./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"During the year ended December#160;31, 2007, CenterPoint Energy recorded increased natural gas expense from unrealized net losses of $10#160;million.#160;#160;During the year ended December 31, 2008, CenterPoint Energy recorded increased natural gas revenues from unrealized net gains of $101#160;million and increased natural gas expense from unrealized net losses of $88#160;million, a net unrealized gain of $13#160;million.#160;#160;During the year ended December 31, 2009, CenterPoint Energy recorded decreased revenues from unrealized net losses of $80#160;mi llion and decreased natural gas expense from unrealized net gains of $57#160;million, a net unrealized loss of $23#160;million./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In prior years, CenterPoint Energy entered into certain derivative instruments that were designated as cash flow hedges. The objective of these derivative instruments was to hedge the price risk associated with natural gas purchases and sales to reduce cash flow variability related to meeting CenterPoint Energy#8217;s wholesale and retail customer obligations.#160; In 2007, CenterPoint Energy discontinued designating these instruments as cash flow hedges.#160;#160;#160;As of December 31, 2009, there are no remaining amounts deferred in other comprehensive income related to these instruments that had previously been designated as cash flow hedges./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"#160;/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic"Weather Hedges./font CenterPoint Energy has weather normalization or other rate mechanisms that mitigate the impact of weather on its gas operations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and a portion of Texas. The remaining Gas Operations jurisdictions do not have such mechanisms. As a result, fluctuations from normal weather may have a significant positive or negative effect on the results of the gas operations in the remaining jurisdictions and in CenterPoint Houston#8217;s service ter ritory./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In 2007, 2008 and 2009, CenterPoint Energy entered into heating-degree day swaps to mitigate the effect of fluctuations from normal weather on its financial position and cash flows for the respective winter heating seasons.#160;#160;The swaps were based on ten-year normal weather. During the years ended December#160;31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, CenterPoint Energy recognized losses of $-0-, $17#160;million and $7#160;million, respectively, related to these swaps.#160;#160;The /fontfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"losses were substantially offset by increased revenues due to colder than normal weather. Weathe r hedge losses are included in revenues in the Statements of Consolidated Income./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic"Interest Rate Swaps./font#160;#160;During 2002, CenterPoint Energy settled forward-starting interest rate swaps having an aggregate notional amount of $1.5#160;billion at a cost of $156#160;million, which was recorded in other comprehensive loss and was amortized into interest expense over the five-year life of the designated fixed-rate debt.#160;#160;The settlement amount was fully amortized at December 31, 2007. Amortization of amounts deferred in accumulated other comprehensive loss for 2007 was $20#160;million./font t;/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic"Hedging of Future Debt Issuances.#160;#160;/fontIn December 2007 and January 2008, CenterPoint Energy entered into treasury rate lock derivative instruments (treasury rate locks) having an aggregate notional amount of $300#160;million and a weighted-average locked U.S. treasury rate on ten-year debt of 4.05%. These treasury rate locks were executed to hedge the ten-year U.S. treasury rate expected to be used in pricing $300#160;million of fixed-rate debt CenterPoint Energy planned to issue in 2008, because changes in the U.S treasury rate would cause variability in CenterPoint Energy#8217;s forecasted interest payments. These treasury rate lock derivatives were designated as cash flow hedges. Accordingly, unrealized gains and losses associated with the treasury rate lock derivative instruments were recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income. In May 2008, CenterPoint Energy settled its treasury rate locks for a payment of $7#160;million. The $7#160;million loss recognized upon settlement of the treasury rate locks was recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss and will be recognized as a component of interest expense over the ten-year life of the related $300#160;million senior notes issued in May 2008. Amortization of amounts deferred in accumulated other comprehensive loss for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009 was less than $1#160;million. During the years ended December#160;31, 2007 and 2008, CenterPoint Energy recognized a loss of $2#160;million and $5#160;million, respectively, for these treasury rate locks in accumulated oth er comprehensive loss. Ineffectiveness for the treasury rate locks was not material during the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2008./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(b) Derivative Fair Values and Income Statement Impacts/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"The following tables present information about CenterPoint Energy#8217;s derivative instruments and hedging activities. The first table provides a balance sheet overview of CenterP oint Energy#8217;s Non-trading Derivative Assets and Liabilities as of December#160;31, 2009, while the latter tables provide a breakdown of the related income statement impact for the year ended December#160;31, 2009./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div align="center" table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr td colspan="10" valign="bottom" width="60%" style="BORDER-BOTTOM: black 2px solid" div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"Fair Value of Derivative Instruments/font/div /td td nowrap="nowrap" valign="bottom" width= "1%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"#160;/font/td /trtr td valign="bottom" width="20%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"font style="DISPLAY: inline; 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(5) Fair Value Measurements	12 Months Ended
(5) Fair Value Measurements	Dec. 31, 2009
Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]
Fair Value Measurements	div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(5)#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;Fair Value Measurements/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Effective January#160;1, 2008, CenterPoint Energy adopted new accounting guidance on fair value measurements which requires additional disclosures about CenterPoint Energy#8217;s financial assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value.#160;Effective January#160;1, 2009, CenterPoint Energy adopted this new guidance for nonfinancial assets and liabilities, which adoption had no impact on CenterPoint Energy#8217;s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.#160;#160;Beginning in January 2008, assets and liabilities recorded at fair value in the Consolidated Balance Sheets are categorized based upon the level of judgment associated with the inputs used to measure their value. Hierarchical levels, as defined in this guidance and directly related to the amount of subjectivity associated with the inputs to fair valuations of these assets and liabilities, are as follows:/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Level 1: Inputs are unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabiliti es at the measurement date.#160;The types of assets carried at Level 1 fair value generally are financial derivatives, investments and equity securities listed in active markets./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"Level 2: Inputs, other than quoted prices included in Level 1, are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. 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(6) Indexed Debt Securities (ZENS) and Time Warner Securities	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2009
Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]
Indexed Debt Securities (ZENS) and Time Warner Securities	div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(6)#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;Indexed Debt Securities (ZENS) and Time Warner Securities/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(a) Investment in Time Warner Securities/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font st yle="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In 1995, CenterPoint Energy sold a cable television subsidiary to TW and received TW convertible preferred stock (TW Preferred) as partial consideration. In July 1999, CenterPoint Energy converted its 11#160;million shares of TW Preferred into 45.8#160;million shares of TW common stock (TW Common). In March 2009, TW spun off its ownership of Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) by distributing 0.08367 shares of TWC common stock (TWC Common) for every share of TW Common held.#160;#160;Subsequently, in March 2009 TW declared a 1-for-3 reverse stock split.#160;#160;In December 2009, TW spun off its ownership in AOL Inc. (AOL) by distributing one share of AOL common /fontfont style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"stock (AOL Common) for every 11 shares of TW Common held.#160;#160;A subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy now holds 7.2#160;million shares o f TW Common, 1.8#160;million shares of TWC Common and 0.7#160;million shares of AOL Common (together with the TW Common and TWC Common, the TW Securities) which are classified as trading securities and are expected to be held to facilitate CenterPoint Energy#8217;s ability to meet its obligation under the 2.0% Zero-Premium Exchangeable Subordinated Notes due 2029 (ZENS). Unrealized gains and losses resulting from changes in the market value of the TW Securities are recorded in CenterPoint Energy#8217;s Statements of Consolidated Income./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(b) ZENS/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div t; div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"In September 1999, we issued ZENS having an original principal amount of $1.0#160;billion of which $840#160;million remain outstanding at December#160;31, 2009. Each ZENS note was originally exchangeable at the holder#8217;s option at any time for an amount of cash equal to 95% of the market value of the reference shares of TW Common attributable to such note. The number and identity of the reference shares attributable to each ZENS note are adjusted for certain corporate events. As of December#160;31, 2009, the reference shares for each ZENS note consisted of 0.5 share of TW Common, 0.125505 share of TWC Common and 0.045455 share of AOL Common, which reflects adjustments resulting from the March 2009 distribution by TW of shares of TWC Common, TW#8217;s March 2009 reverse stock split and the December 2009 distribution by TW of shares of AOL Common.#160; CenterPoint Energy pays interest on the ZENS at an annual rate of 2% plus the amount of any quarterly cash dividends paid in respect of the reference shares attributable to the ZENS. The principal amount of ZENS is subject to being increased or decreased to the extent that the annual yield from interest and cash dividends on the reference shares is less than or more than 2.309%. This is defined in the ZENS instrument as "contingent principal." At December#160;31, 2009, ZENS having an original principal amount of $840#160;million and a contingent principal amount of $814#160;million were outstanding and were exchangeable, at the option of the holders, for cash equal to 95% of the market value of reference shares deemed to be attributable to the ZENS. At December#160;31, 2009, the market value of such shares was approximately $300#160;million, which would provide an exchange amount of $3 40 for each $1,000 original principal amount of ZENS. At maturity of the ZENS in 2029, CenterPoint Energy will be obligated to pay in cash the higher of the contingent principal amount of the ZENS or an amount based on the then-current market value of the reference shares, which will include any additional publicly-traded securities distributed with respect to the current reference shares prior to maturity./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"The ZENS obligation is bifurcated into a debt component and a derivative component (the holder#8217;s option to receive the appreciated value of the reference shares at maturity). The bifurcated debt component accretes through interest charges at 17.4% annually up to the contingent principal a mount of the ZENS in 2029. Such accretion will be reduced by annual cash interest payments, as described above. The derivative component is recorded at fair value and changes in the fair value of the derivative component are recorded in CenterPoint Energy#8217;s Statements of Consolidated Income. During 2007, 2008 and 2009, CenterPoint Energy recorded a gain (loss) of $(114)#160;million, $(139)#160;million and $82#160;million, respectively, on CenterPoint Energy#8217;s investment in TW Securities. During 2007, 2008 and 2009, CenterPoint Energy recorded a gain (loss) of $111#160;million, $128#160;million and $(68)#160;million, respectively, associated with the fair value of the derivative component of the ZENS obligation. Changes in the fair value of the TW Securities held by CenterPoint Energy are expected to substantially offset changes in the fair value of the derivative component of the ZENS./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"#160;/div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"The following table sets forth summarized financial information regarding CenterPoint Energy#8217;s investment in TW Securities and each component of CenterPoint Energy#8217;s ZENS obligation (in millions)./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div align="center" table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="85%" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman" tr td valign="bottom" width="50%" style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman"#160; /font/td td valign="bottom" width="1%" st yle="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px"font style="DISPLAY: inline; 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(7) Equity	12 Months Ended
(7) Equity	Dec. 31, 2009
Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]
Capital Stock	div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(7)#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;#160;Equity/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(a) Capital Stock/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times Ne w Roman"CenterPoint Energy has 1,020,000,000#160;authorized shares of capital stock, comprised of 1,000,000,000#160;shares of $0.01 par value common stock and 20,000,000#160;shares of $0.01#160;par value cumulative preferred stock./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"During the year ended December#160;31, 2009, CenterPoint Energy received net proceeds of approximately $280#160;million from the issuance of 24.2#160;million common shares in an underwritten public offering, net proceeds of $148#160;million from the issuance of 14.3#160;million common shares through a continuous offering program, proceeds of approximately $57#160;million from the sale of approximately 4.9#160;millio n common shares to CenterPoint Energy#8217;s defined contribution plan and proceeds of approximately $15#160;million from the sale of approximately 1.3#160;million common shares to participants in CenterPoint Energy#8217;s enhanced dividend reinvestment plan./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"(b) Shareholder Rights Plan/font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"CenterPoint Energy has a Shareholder Rights Plan that states that eac h share of its common stock includes one associated preference stock purchase right (Right) which entitles the registered holder to purchase from CenterPoint Energy a unit consisting of one-thousandth of a share of Series#160;A Preference Stock. The Rights, which expire on December#160;11, 2011, are exercisable upon some events involving the acquisition of 20% or more of CenterPoint Energy#8217;s outstanding common stock. Upon the occurrence of such an event, each Right entitles the holder to receive common stock with a current market price equal to two times the exercise price of the Right. At any time prior to becoming exercisable, CenterPoint Energy may repurchase the Rights at a price of $0.005#160;per Right. There are 700,000#160;shares of Series#160;A Preference Stock reserved for issuance upon exercise of the Rights./font/div div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"br //div /div

(8) Short-term Borrowings and Long-term Debt

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2009

Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]

Short-term Borrowings and Long-term Debt

(8) Short-term Borrowings and Long-term Debt

December 31,

2008

December 31,

2009

Long-Term

Current(1)

Long-Term

Current(1)

(In millions)

Short-term borrowings: