Clear Creek - No Notice

I work for Clear Creek County and was only notified when our head of facilities told us Georgetown was being shut down. Xcel’s inconsistent communication is the core of this issue. They blatantly lied when they said the shutdown was only going to be for 11 hours on Friday (12/19), but could extend into Monday. On top of the rate increases, we will be losing both food and medicine as a result. Will Xcel cover that? Most likely not. If they can’t use their 1.9 billion in profits to make their assets more resilient to weather events, what are we even doing with them as our utility? The PUC needs to hold Xcel accountable and Xcel needs to do right by their customers. The fact that we need their approval to install solar or go off-grid is insane too. They stopped approving new solar projects for a lot of people up here because it would eat into their bottom line. BS. If more people were allowed to install their own systems, this wouldn’t be necessary. But capitalist greed gonna capitalist greed.