Lower Than Expected Wholesale Natural Gas Prices Prompt Request to Lower Gas Cost Portion of Customer Bills

HOUSTON, Jan 17, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) announces the following webcast: What: CenterPoint Energy, Inc. Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2005 Earnings Conference Call Webcast When: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 @ 10:30 a.m.

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 11, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Cold weather and falling snow should remind all Minnesotans to learn about natural gas safety. CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP) is offering winter safety information for its customers and the public to help them stay safe

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 03, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Effective Jan. 1, 2006, CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP) began charging its customers an interim rate increase of 2.07 percent, which will add about $2 a month to the average residential customer's bill.

HOUSTON, Dec 16, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) and its indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary, CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp. (CERC together with CenterPoint Energy, the Companies), have determined that during 2004 and 2005, certain

HOUSTON, Dec 16, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) announced today that CenterPoint Energy Transition Bond Company II, LLC closed on $1.85 billion in transition bonds with an effective annual weighted average interest rate of 5.45 percent.

Thursday, May 25, 2006, 9 a.m. CDT

HOUSTON, Nov 16, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Company (CEGT), an indirect, wholly owned interstate natural gas pipeline subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) and Duke Energy Gas Transmission (DEGT), a subsidiary of Duke

HOUSTON, Nov 14, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) announced today that its electric transmission and distribution subsidiary, CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric (CEHE), has repaid the $1.31 billion Berkshire Hathaway and Credit Suisse

HOUSTON, Nov 03, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE: CNP) today reported net income of $50 million, or $0.15 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2005 compared to a net loss of $1.1 billion, or $3.66 per diluted share, for the same period of