CenterPoint Energy 10-Q 2025-09-30

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2025

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Commission file number 1-31447

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(713) 207-1111

Registrant's telephone number, including area code

Commission file number 1-3187

CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(713) 207-1111

Registrant's telephone number, including area code

Commission file number 1-13265

CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(713) 207-1111

Registrant's telephone number, including area code

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuers’ classes of common stock as of October 20, 2025:

CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC and CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp. meet the conditions set forth in General Instructions H(1)(a) and (b) of Form 10-Q and are therefore filing this form with the reduced disclosure format specified in General Instruction H(2) of Form 10-Q.

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

From time to time the Registrants make statements concerning their expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance and underlying assumptions and other statements that are not historical facts. These statements are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements. You can generally identify forward-looking statements by the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “goal,” “intend,” “may,” “objective,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “projection,” “should,” “target,” “will” or other similar words.

The Registrants have based their forward-looking statements on management’s beliefs and assumptions based on information reasonably available to management at the time the statements are made. The Registrants caution you that assumptions, beliefs, expectations, intentions and projections about future events may and often do vary materially from actual results. Therefore, the Registrants cannot assure you that actual results will not differ materially from those expressed or implied by the Registrants’ forward-looking statements. In this combined Form 10-Q, unless context requires otherwise, the terms “our,” “we” and “us” are used as abbreviated references to CenterPoint Energy, Inc. together with its consolidated subsidiaries, including Houston Electric, CERC and SIGECO.

The following are some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied by the Registrants’ forward-looking statements and apply to all Registrants unless otherwise indicated:

• The business strategies and strategic initiatives, restructurings, joint ventures and acquisitions or dispositions of assets or businesses involving us or our industry, including the ability to successfully complete such strategies, initiatives, transactions or plans on the timelines we expect or at all, such as the announced sale of our Ohio natural gas LDC business or the completed sale of our Louisiana and Mississippi natural gas LDC businesses, which we cannot assure will have the anticipated benefits to us;

• industrial, commercial and residential growth in our service territories and changes in market demand, including in relation to the expansion of data centers, energy refining and export facilities, including hydrogen facilities, electrification of industrial processes and transport and logistics, as well as the effects of energy efficiency measures and demographic patterns, and our ability to appropriately estimate and effectively manage such demand and the business opportunities relating to such matters;

• our ability to fund and invest planned capital and the timely recovery of our investments, including the timing of and amounts sought for those related to our 10-year capital plan, including Houston Electric’s GHRI and SRP, and Indiana Electric’s generation transition plan as part of its IRPs;

• our ability to successfully construct, operate, repair, maintain and restart electric generating facilities, natural gas facilities, TEEEF and electric transmission facilities, as applicable, including in the event of a widespread outage and in relation to complying with applicable environmental and safety standards and the implementation of a well-balanced energy and resource mix, as appropriate;

• timely and appropriate rate actions that allow and authorize timely recovery of costs and a reasonable return on investment, including the timing of and amounts sought for recovery of Houston Electric’s TEEEF leases and restoration costs relating to, among other things, Hurricane Beryl, and requested or favorable adjustments to rates and approval of other requested items as part of base rate proceedings or interim rate mechanisms;

• the timing and success of, and our ability to obtain approval for matters relating to, Houston Electric’s release of its 15 large 27 MW to 32 MW TEEEF units to the San Antonio area, reduction of its TEEEF fleet capacity and reduction of rates to reflect the removal of the 15 large TEEEF units from Houston Electric’s TEEEF fleet, as well as Houston Electric’s ability to complete one or more other future transactions involving various sizes of the TEEEF units on acceptable terms and conditions within the anticipated timeframe;

• economic conditions in regional and national markets, including economic uncertainty and volatility, potential for recession, changes to inflation and interest rates, and their effect on sales, prices and costs;

• weather variations and other natural phenomena, including the impact of severe weather events on operations, capital, legislation and/or regulations, such as seen in connection with the February 2021 Winter Storm Event, the May 2024 Storm Events and Hurricane Beryl;

• volatility in the markets for natural gas as a result of, among other factors, tariffs, legislation, bans, retaliatory trade measures taken against the United States or related governmental action, as well as armed conflicts, including the conflict in the Middle East and any broader related conflict, and the conflict in Ukraine, and the related sanctions on certain Russian entities;

• non-payment for our services due to financial distress of our customers and the ability of our customers, including REPs, to satisfy their obligations to CenterPoint Energy, Houston Electric, and CERC, and the negative impact on such ability related to adverse economic conditions and severe weather events;

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• public health threats and their effect on our operations, business and financial condition, our industries and the communities we serve, U.S. and world financial markets and supply chains, potential regulatory actions and changes in customer and stakeholder behavior relating thereto;

• federal, state and local legislative, executive and regulatory actions or developments affecting various aspects of our businesses, including, among others, any actions resulting from Hurricane Beryl, energy deregulation or re-regulation, pipeline integrity and safety and changes in regulation, legislation and governmental action pertaining to trade (including tariffs, bans, retaliatory trade measures taken against the United States or related governmental action), the implementation of budget and spending cuts to federal government agencies and programs, effects of government shutdowns, policies incentivizing or disincentivizing the development or utilization of alternative sources of generation (including distributed generation), health care, finance and actions regarding the rates charged by our regulated businesses;

• our ability to manage and timely execute our planned capital projects, including those contemplated in our 10-year capital plan such as Houston Electric’s GHRI and SRP, obtain the anticipated benefits of such projects, complete such projects within budget and manage costs and impacts of such projects on customer affordability;

• disruptions to the global supply chain, including as a result of volatility in commodity prices, trade agreements, changes in trade relationships, geopolitical and economic uncertainty, regulatory and policy instability, severe weather events, tariffs, bans, retaliatory trade measures, legislation and governmental action impacting the supply chain, that could prevent CenterPoint Energy from securing the resources needed to, among other things, fully execute on its 10-year capital plan, including the GHRI and SRP, or achieve its net zero and GHG emissions reduction goals and otherwise impact the affordability of our rates;

• the availability of, prices for and our ability to procure materials, supplies or services and scarcity of and changes in labor for current and future projects, including those relating to our GHRI and SRP and otherwise arising from our 10-year capital plan, and operations and maintenance costs, our ability to control such costs and cost-related impacts on the affordability of our rates;

• our ability to timely obtain and maintain necessary licenses and permits from local, federal and other regulatory authorities on acceptable terms and resolve third-party challenges to such licenses or permits as applicable;

• direct or indirect effects on our facilities, resources, operations, reputation and financial condition resulting from terrorism, cyberattacks or intrusions, data security breaches or other security incidents or other attempts to disrupt our businesses or the businesses of third parties, or other catastrophic events such as fires, earthquakes, explosions, leaks, floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, derecho events, ice storms and other severe weather events, wildfires, pandemic health events, geopolitical conflict, civil unrest or other occurrences;

• risks relating to potential wildfires, including damages to our network and losses in excess of insurance liability coverage;

• tax legislation and any changes in tax laws under the current or future administrations, including the effects of the OBBBA, Executive Order 14315, the IRA and any further changes to or the repeal of the IRA, and any potential changes to tax rates, CAMT imposed, tax credits and/or interest deductibility, as well as uncertainties involving state commissions’ and local municipalities’ regulatory requirements and determinations regarding the treatment of EDIT and our rates;

• our ability to mitigate weather impacts through normalization or rate mechanisms, and the effectiveness of such mechanisms;

• actions by credit rating agencies, including any potential downgrades to credit ratings;

• matters affecting regulatory approval, legislative or executive actions, construction, costs, implementation of necessary technology or other issues with respect to major capital projects and programs, including those contemplated in our 10-year capital plan, that result in delays or cancellation or in costs that cannot be recouped in rates;

• local, state and federal legislative, executive and regulatory actions or developments relating to the environment, including, among others, those related to global climate risk, air emissions, GHG emissions, carbon emissions, wastewater discharges and the handling and disposal of CCR that could impact operations, cost recovery of generation plant costs and related assets, and CenterPoint Energy’s net zero and GHG emissions reduction goals;

• the impact of unplanned facility outages or other closures;

• the sufficiency of our insurance coverage, including availability, cost, coverage and terms and ability to recover claims;

• impacts from CenterPoint Energy’s pension and postretirement benefit plans, such as the investment performance and increases to net periodic costs as a result of plan settlements and changes in assumptions, including discount rates;

• changes in interest rates and their impact on costs of borrowing and the valuation of CenterPoint Energy’s pension benefit obligation;

• commercial bank and financial market conditions, including disruptions in the banking industry, our access to capital, the cost of such capital, the results of our financing and refinancing efforts, including availability of funds in the capital markets, and impacts on our vendors, customers and suppliers;

• inability of various counterparties to meet their obligations to us;

• the extent and effectiveness of our risk management activities;

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• timely and appropriate regulatory actions, which include actions allowing requested securitization, for any hurricanes or other severe weather events, such as Hurricane Beryl, or natural disasters or other amounts sought for recovery of costs, including stranded coal-fired generation asset costs;

• our ability to attract, effectively transition, motivate and retain management and key employees and maintain good labor relations;

• changes in technology, including with respect to efficient battery storage or the emergence or growth of new, developing or alternative sources of generation, and their adoption by consumers, and our ability to anticipate and adapt to technological changes;

• advances in AI and our success in timely adopting, developing and deploying AI;

• the impact of climate risk and alternate energy sources on the demand for natural gas and electricity generated or transmitted by us;

• the timing and outcome of any audits, disputes and other proceedings related to taxes;

• the recording of impairment charges;

• political and economic developments and actions, including energy and environmental policies under the current administration;

• CenterPoint Energy’s ability to execute on its strategy, initiatives, targets and goals, including its net zero and GHG

emissions reduction goals and its operations and maintenance expenditure goals;

• the outcome of litigation, including litigation related to the February 2021 Winter Storm Event and Hurricane Beryl;

• the effect of changes in and application of accounting standards and pronouncements; and

• other factors discussed in “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of the Registrants’ combined 2024 Form 10-K, which are incorporated herein by reference, Part II, Item 1A of this combined Form 10-Q, and in other reports that the Registrants file from time to time with the SEC.

You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of the particular statement and, other than as required under applicable securities laws, the Registrants undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. Investors should note that the Registrants announce material financial and other information in SEC filings, press releases and public conference calls. Based on guidance from the SEC, the Registrants may use the Investors section of CenterPoint Energy’s website (http://www.centerpointenergy.com) to communicate with investors about the Registrants. It is possible that the financial and other information posted there could be deemed to be material information. The information on CenterPoint Energy’s website is not part of this combined Form 10-Q.

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CONSOLIDATED INCOME

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CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CONSOLIDATED COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

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CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

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The following combined discussion and analysis should be read in combination with the Interim Condensed Financial Statements contained in this combined Form 10-Q and the Registrants’ combined 2024 Form 10-K. When discussing CenterPoint Energy’s consolidated financial information, it includes the results of Houston Electric and CERC, which, along with CenterPoint Energy, are collectively referred to as the Registrants. Unless the context indicates otherwise, specific references to Houston Electric and CERC also pertain to CenterPoint Energy. In this combined Form 10-Q, the terms “our,” “we” and “us” are used as abbreviated references to CenterPoint Energy, Inc. together with its consolidated subsidiaries, including Houston Electric and CERC, unless otherwise stated. No Registrant makes any representations as to the information related solely to CenterPoint Energy or the subsidiaries of CenterPoint Energy other than itself.

RECENT EVENTS

Ohio Securities Purchase Agreement. On October 20, 2025, CenterPoint Energy, through CERC Corp., entered into the Ohio Securities Purchase Agreement to sell all of the issued and outstanding equity interests in CEOH. The proposed transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026. For further information, see Note 16 the Interim Condensed Financial Statements.

CenterPoint Energy Board Leadership Structure Changes. On October 8, 2025, the Board unanimously appointed Jason P. Wells, Chief Executive Officer and President of CenterPoint Energy, to serve as Chair of the Board, effective immediately. Mr. Wells has served as a director on the Board since January 5, 2024. In addition, the Board approved the creation of a Lead Director of the Board position and the independent directors of the Board unanimously appointed independent director Christopher H. Franklin to serve as the Lead Director of the Board, effective immediately.

10-Year Capital Plan. On September 29, 2025, CenterPoint Energy announced a new 10-year capital plan to invest $65 billion from 2026 through 2035, inclusive of a $2 billion increase in planned capital expenditures through 2030. The new plan is expected to advance economic growth, enhance the experience of the Registrants’ customers and deliver consistent value for stakeholders across the Registrants’ jurisdictions.

CenterPoint Energy Appointment of Chief Operating Officer. On July 21, 2025, CenterPoint Energy announced the appointment of Jesus Soto, Jr. to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of CenterPoint Energy, effective August 11, 2025.

One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and Executive Order 14315. On July 4, 2025, the OBBBA was signed into law. The OBBBA includes significant provisions, such as the permanent extension of certain expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and numerous changes to the energy tax credits initially introduced and expanded under the IRA. The legislation has multiple effective dates, with certain provisions effective in 2025 and others implemented through 2027. Additionally, on July 7, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14315, which relates to the implementation of such changes to energy tax credits. The Registrants are evaluating the OBBBA for the effect on their future financial results, and the Registrants will consider the impacts of the OBBBA and Executive Order 14315, as well as related guidance, on any future generation projects, including any BTAs or PPAs, as applicable. As a result of the Registrants having limited generation activities qualifying for tax credits under the IRA, the Registrants do not expect material impacts resulting from the changes to the IRA.

Temporary Generation. In June 2025, Houston Electric entered into definitive documentation, subject to PUCT approval, with relevant parties to release the 15 large 27 MW to 32 MW TEEEF units to the San Antonio area for a period of up to two years, during which time Houston Electric will not receive revenue or profit from ERCOT and will also not charge Houston-area customers for these TEEEF units while they are in San Antonio serving ERCOT. On July 9, 2025, the PUCT referred this docket to the SOAH. Following various preliminary orders, the SOAH set the prehearing conference for November 12, 2025 and set the hearing on the merits for November 13 through November 14, 2025. For additional information, see Note 6 to the Interim Condensed Financial Statements.

Regulatory Proceedings. For further information, see Note 6 to the Interim Condensed Financial Statements. For information related to our pending and completed regulatory proceedings to date in 2025, see “Liquidity and Capital Resources —Regulatory Matters” below.

Debt Transactions. In October 2025, CenterPoint Energy completed cash tender offers for up to (i) $300 million aggregate purchase price of certain of CenterPoint Energy’s outstanding senior notes, ranging from 2.65% to 3.70% due 2030 to 2049, and (ii) $200 million aggregate purchase price of certain of Houston Electric’s general mortgage bonds, ranging from 4.25% to

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4.50% due 2044 to 2049. Additionally, in October 2025, CenterPoint Energy issued $700 million aggregate principal amount of 5.950% Fixed-to-Fixed Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes, Series D, due 2056. For information about debt transactions to date in 2025, see Note 9 and Note 16 to the Interim Condensed Financial Statements.

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CENTERPOINT ENERGY CONSOLIDATED RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

For information regarding factors that may affect the future results of our consolidated operations, see “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of the Registrants’ combined 2024 Form 10-K.

Net income (loss) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 was as follows:

(1)Includes unallocated corporate costs, interest income and interest expense and intercompany eliminations.

Three months ended September 30, 2025 compared to three months ended September 30, 2024

Net income increased $100 million primarily due to the following items

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Houston Electric and CERC meet the conditions specified in General Instruction H(1)(a) and (b) to Form 10-Q and are therefore permitted to use the reduced disclosure format for wholly-owned subsidiaries of reporting companies. Accordingly, Houston Electric and CERC have omitted from this report the information called for by Item 3 (Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk) of Part I of the Form 10-Q.

Information regarding the Registrants’ quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk are disclosed in Part II, Item 7A of our combined 2024 Form 10-K. Except as described below, there have been no material changes in those disclosures.

Interest Rate Risk (CenterPoint Energy)

As of September 30, 2025, the Registrants had outstanding long-term debt and lease obligations and CenterPoint Energy had obligations under its ZENS that subject them to the risk of loss associated with movements in market interest rates. The Registrants seek to manage interest rate exposure by monitoring the effects of changes in market interest rates and using a combination of fixed and variable rate debt. Additionally, interest rate swaps are used to mitigate interest rate exposure when deemed appropriate.

CenterPoint Energy’s floating rate obligations aggregated $1.1 billion and $1.5 billion as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. If the floating interest rates were to increase by 100 basis points from September 30, 2025 rates, CenterPoint Energy’s combined interest expense would increase by approximately $11 million annually.

As of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, CenterPoint Energy had outstanding fixed-rate debt (excluding indexed debt securities) aggregating $21.4 billion and $19.7 billion, respectively, in principal amount and having a fair value of $20.8 billion and $18.4 billion, respectively. Because these instruments are fixed-rate, they do not expose CenterPoint Energy to the risk of loss in earnings due to changes in market interest rates. However, the fair value of these instruments would increase by approximately $764 million if interest rates were to decline by 10% from levels on September 30, 2025. In general, such an increase in fair value would impact earnings and cash flows only if CenterPoint Energy were to reacquire all or a portion of these instruments in the open market prior to their maturity.

In accordance with Exchange Act Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15, the Registrants carried out separate evaluations, under the supervision and with the participation of each company’s management, including the principal executive officer and principal financial officer, of the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on those evaluations, the principal executive officer and principal financial officer, in each case, concluded that the

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disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of September 30, 2025 to provide assurance that information required to be disclosed in the reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including the principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding disclosure.

There has been no change in the Registrants’ internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the three months ended September 30, 2025 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Registrants’ internal controls over financial reporting.

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

**Item 1.**LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

For a description of material legal and regulatory proceedings, including environmental legal proceedings that involve a governmental authority as a party and that the Registrants reasonably believe would result in $1,000,000 or more of monetary sanctions, exclusive of interest and costs, under federal, state and local laws that have been enacted or adopted regulating the discharge of materials into the environment or primarily for the purpose of protecting the environment, affecting the Registrants, see Note 11(d) to the Interim Condensed Financial Statements and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources — Future Sources and Uses of Cash” and “— Regulatory Matters,” each of which is incorporated herein by reference. See also “Business — Regulation” and “— Environmental Matters” in Part I, Item 1 and “Legal Proceedings” in Part I, Item 3 of the Registrants’ combined 2024 Form 10-K.

There have been no material changes from the risk factors disclosed in the Registrants’ combined 2024 Form 10-K.

Rule 10b5-1 Trading Arrangements

During the three months ended September 30, 2025, no director or officer of CenterPoint Energy, Houston Electric or CERC adopted or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” as each term is defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K.

Exhibits filed herewith are designated by a cross (†); all exhibits not so designated are incorporated by reference to a prior filing as indicated. Agreements included as exhibits are included only to provide information to investors regarding their terms. The agreements listed below may contain representations, warranties and other provisions that were made, among other things, to provide the parties thereto with specified rights and obligations and to allocate risk among them, and such agreements should not be relied upon as constituting or providing any factual disclosures about the Registrants, any other persons, any state of affairs or other matters.

Pursuant to Item 601(b)(4)(iii)(A) of Regulation S-K, the Registrants have not filed as exhibits to this combined Form 10-Q certain long-term debt instruments, including indentures, under which the total amount of securities authorized does not exceed 10% of the total assets of the Registrants and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. The Registrants hereby agree to furnish a copy of any such instrument to the SEC upon request.

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