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**Exhibit 34.1**

**ATTESTATION REPORT ON ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE WITH**

**SERVICING CRITERIA FOR ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES**

**REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM**

To the Member of 

CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC 

Houston, Texas 

We have examined management of CenterPointEnergy Houston Electric, LLC’s assertion, included in the accompanying Report on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria for Asset-Backed Securities for CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC, that CenterPoint Energy HoustonElectric, LLC (the “Company”) complied with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation AB for the $1,695 million original principal amount of CenterPoint EnergyTransition Bond Company IV, LLC’s transition bonds (the “2012 Senior Secured Transition Bonds”), excluding criteria 1122(d)(1)(ii) (outsourcing), (1)(iii) (back-up servicing), (1)(iv) (fidelitybond), (2)(ii) (wire transfer disbursements), (2)(vi) (unissued checks), (3)(ii) (allocation and remittance), (3)(iii) (disbursements to investors), (4)(iii) (additions, removals or substitutions), (4)(v) (records regarding pool assets), (4)(ix)(adjustments to interest rates), (4)(xi) (payments on behalf of obligors), (4)(xii) (late payment penalties), (4)(xiii) (obligor disbursements), and (4)(xv) (external credit enhancement) (the “servicing criteria”), as of and for the yearended December 31, 2019, which management has determined are not applicable to the activities performed by the Company with respect to the 2012 Senior Secured Transition Bonds. Management is responsible for the Company’s compliance withthe servicing criteria and its assertion. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s compliance with the servicing criteria based on our examination. 

Our examination was conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and in accordance withattestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Those standards require that we plan and perform the examination to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Company complied, in all materialrespects, with the servicing criteria, and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence about the Company’s compliance with the servicing criteria, including tests on a sample basis of the servicing activities related to the 2012Senior Secured Transition Bonds, determining whether the Company performed those selected activities in compliance with the servicing criteria during the specified period, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in thecircumstances. Our procedures were limited to selected servicing activities performed by the Company during the period covered by this report and, accordingly, such samples may not have included servicing activities related to each asset-backedtransaction included in the 2012 Senior Secured Transition Bonds. Further, an examination is not designed to detect noncompliance arising from errors that may have occurred prior to the period specified above that may have affected the balances oramounts calculated or reported by the Company during the period covered by this report. We believe that the evidence we obtained in our examination is sufficient and appropriate to provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. 

Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Company’s compliance with the servicing criteria. 

In our opinion, management’s assertion that the Company complied with the aforementioned servicing criteria as of and for the year endedDecember 31, 2019, for the 2012 Senior Secured Transition Bonds, is fairly stated, in all material respects. 

/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP 

Houston, Texas 

March 25, 2020 

 
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