Xcel is for profit not for people

I lost power at 9:40 am now it’s 22 hours later and I still have no power and there was barely wind. I have had to throw out all my food. Xcel is saying we won’t have power for 3 days when they originally told us 4 hours. This is not ok. This is not because of the wind this is because Xcel has low reserves and they don’t want to buy power at a premium rate from other iso. We have had much worse wind in Arvada with no lost power. This is not about safety but about Xcel making a 2 billion profit for their share holders.

Inexcusable!!

Inexcusable!I live in Evergreen, 80439Received an email saying we MIGHT be impacted at noon on Wednesday. Power was shut off at 10am. A small breeze started around until 4pm. It was 10x as bad last week, yet not a peep from Xcel!The decision to shutdown at 10am was inexcusable! We lost full days of income at work (we both work from home), kids missed Finals, and the $500 of Xmas groceries are now garbage!! Why can a power company force a shutdown bc something “might” happen? Why - bc they have fancy new lawyers telling them they need to cover…

What was this all about?

If this is the threshold by which Xcel will decide to shut off our power for long enough to ruin our food and have our temperatures drop inside our homes, then they have no business being a power company. We get worse winds than yesterday on a regular basis. Other than about one hour in the afternoon the winds were non-existent for all intents and purposes. And if they don’t have systems in place to reverse the power outage plan once it becomes clear that the forecast was way off, they shouldn’t be a power company. Furthermore, if they plan…