CenterPoint Energy Sets 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders Thursday, May 24, 2007, 9 a.m. CDT

HOUSTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CenterPoint Energy, Inc.'s Board of Directors announced that the Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held on Thursday, May 24, 2007, at 9 a.m. CDT in the CenterPoint Energy Tower auditorium, 1111 Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas. Shareholders who hold shares of CenterPoint Energy as of March 26, 2007, will receive notice of the meeting and will be eligible to vote.

CenterPoint Energy, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a domestic energy delivery company that includes electric transmission & distribution, natural gas distribution, competitive natural gas sales and services, and pipeline and field services operations. The company serves more than five million metered customers primarily in Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. Assets total approximately $17 billion. With about 9,000 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 130 years. For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.centerpointenergy.com/ .
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