On Saturday morning, eleven members of the Northwood Manor Civic Club boarded a city bus for the half-hour drive to the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center at West Gray, in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood. They came to meet CenterPoint Energy CEO Jason Wells, who, in the wake of widespread power outages following Hurricane Beryl last month, has become the face of the city’s dysfunctional electrical grid. Four days after Beryl made landfall, with more than a million Houstonians still in the dark, Wells was photographed by the Houston Chronicle in the utility company’s downtown office building next to a thermostat set to 70 degrees. On his wrist was a watch identified by online horologists as a Rolex Daytona. (Wells made more than $7 million last year as CenterPoint’s…
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