 Meanwhile, about a half million Houston-area homes and businesses will still be without power next week. The city's largest utility said Thursday, stoking frustration of hot and weary residents and leading a top state official to call the pace of recovery from Hurricane Beryl unacceptable. Jason Ryan, executive vice president of CenterPoint Energy, said power had been restored to more than a million homes and businesses since Beryl made landfall in Texas Monday, and the company expects to get hundreds of thousands of more customers back online by Sunday, but many more will have to wait much longer.