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Xcel is planning a potential PSPS for parts of Larimer and Weld on Friday January 14, 2026.
On December 17, 2025 Xcel Energy implemented a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) impacting around 52,000 customers in Boulder, Clear Creek, Jefferson, Larimer and Weld counties. Again on December 19, 2025 Xcel Energy implemented a second PSPS event that impacted approximately 69,000 customers in those same counties. Total outages across these days were higher due to damage from this storm and other protective measures implemented by Xcel.
PSPS events are implemented in order to reduce the risk of a wildfire caused by power lines or other utility infrastructure. The Public Utilities Commission does not approve or deny Xcel’s use of proactive shutoffs however, the Agency does have an important role in ensuring that the communication, preparation and coordination of PSPS events is protective of customers.
The PUC is creating a new set of rules establishing permanent requirements and standards for public safety power shutoffs. Staff is currently working to draft these rules and welcomes input from Xcel customers on their experiences with the most recent PSPS events. This information will help ensure that the PUC’s rules are comprehensive.
Please take a few minutes to give us your feedback through the survey or comment links below.
Xcel is planning a potential PSPS for parts of Larimer and Weld on Friday January 14, 2026.
On December 17, 2025 Xcel Energy implemented a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) impacting around 52,000 customers in Boulder, Clear Creek, Jefferson, Larimer and Weld counties. Again on December 19, 2025 Xcel Energy implemented a second PSPS event that impacted approximately 69,000 customers in those same counties. Total outages across these days were higher due to damage from this storm and other protective measures implemented by Xcel.
PSPS events are implemented in order to reduce the risk of a wildfire caused by power lines or other utility infrastructure. The Public Utilities Commission does not approve or deny Xcel’s use of proactive shutoffs however, the Agency does have an important role in ensuring that the communication, preparation and coordination of PSPS events is protective of customers.
The PUC is creating a new set of rules establishing permanent requirements and standards for public safety power shutoffs. Staff is currently working to draft these rules and welcomes input from Xcel customers on their experiences with the most recent PSPS events. This information will help ensure that the PUC’s rules are comprehensive.
Please take a few minutes to give us your feedback through the survey or comment links below.
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Lost power Wednesday, right when we had family come in from out of town. Ended up having to put them in a hotel for 4 days, on our dime. Lost all the food we prepped for the holidays. Every day Excel would message an estimated time and never once made that time. We also lost all cell phone coverage in the area, so if there had been an evacuation we wouldn't have known about it. Had to get in the car to drive east to get LTE or 5G. When power finally did come on, we were half a day... Continue reading
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I heard the Poudre REA customers were not affected (except where they depend on poles that were damaged) - they are responsible and care about their clients!
Our neighborhood is in north Fort Collins along Lemay near Tavelli and we were out of power all day Friday. In addition Xcel pruned to the point of destroying all of the trees along our neighborhood (between Conifer and Willox). Our neighborhood is pressing charges. These lines should be underground!
My dear friend lives in southeast Fort Collins and had their power off all day too.
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1. Given the demonstrated incompetence why haven't the PUC members resigned in embarrassment? I suggest reading some of the reports developed by the staff. Truly alarming level of incompetence.
2. Why do rate payers have to support a corporation obviously fixated on providing a horrible product? Xcel is a stockholder company apparently couldn't care less about "public service."
3. Let's put Xcel on a 5 year plan to radically overhaul their antiquated infrastructure. Why, in 2026, is the system so pathetic? Because Xcel is incompetent and not interested in anything other than stealing money from the residents of CO.
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I am a firefighter in the foothills and red flag warning days when fuels are dry keep me up at night. I appreciate Excel trying to mitigate some wildfire caused by electrical hazards but, ultimately, it is merely an indemnity issue for them and does very little to eliminate wildfires. I know this because I responded to numerous fires that day caused by power lines that were "deenergized"...that weren't.
What happens when utility companies kill power is that thousands of people fire up their generators. When there are thousands of generators backfeeding the lines they are carrying just as much... Continue reading
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(My apologies to the moderators! This is the second attempt. I found many typos in the first!)
20 Jan 2026
Xcel Energy handled the recent Wildfire risk with the extreme high winds in an excellent manner. I was surprised to see the complaint from Tammy Story who I follow and do support.
But I feel our culture has unrealistic expectations expecting perfection out of our organizations and government when we cannot expect it out of ourselves.
I feel we could be more realistic with the fact that a large corporation such as Xcel, who has serviced our Foothills home for... Continue reading
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deliberate power shutoffs to avoid potential lawsuits by excel are life-threatening for the thousands of elderly and disabled folks like myself dependent upon CPAP, oxygen concentrators, and other medical equipment, as well as loss of emergency communications and Internet services ... and of course in the dead of winter, freezing in the dark is another potential killer for many.
what is even the purpose of having electrical service if it can simply be cut off at the drop of the hat? ... how is that considered meeting the criteria of delivering reliable service at all times.?
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This is my SECOND "planned" outage experience with Xcell. I did research and it appears that they are currently being sued by multiple States for over a billion dollars for negligence regarding reporting and irresponsible nefarious activity. Hence the shut offsIm an honest and try to be an accurate person. According to the law in CO, Zcel is breaking it in multiple ways. They are shutting off power to homes with out ANY warning, they are givin no uodates, they are doing it when its sub 32 degrees.(illegal) and they are also shuttingit off on non agreed upon or publicized... Continue reading
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I completely agree that utility shutdowns may need to occur to save our mountain towns from a fire disaster.
However, our foothills communities received a notice of an 8 hour shutdown, which we all know how to handle. What actually happened was over 4+ days! of silence and blackout - no power, no internet, no phone service. Those of us who are mobile drove to Denver periodically to find out what was happening. We shared the info as best we could. (There was almost none to share until the last day when they put up a very complete website.) Xcel... Continue reading
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I am writing to express my extreme dissatisfaction over the power outage that affected northwest Arvada in December 2025. I've waited to write to calm down and gather my thoughts. I feel this outage was a mess.
The December 2025 Excel power outage was a disaster. Sure it made Xcel comfortable. I had power Wednesday Dec. 17th and Thursday Dec. 18th, but then lost power Friday morning Dec. 19th at 5:45 a.m. when there was not a breath of wind in my neighborhood. The outage continued for the next 28 hours while my neighborhood, the... Continue reading
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On Wednesday, December 17th, at 10am, power to both my home and my place of business was shut off. I am a hairdresser, and I was fully booked for hair services during the week before Christmas. I was able to work 4 1/2 hours on that Wednesday, even without power. My salon is in the Dakota Ridge neighborhood, and we have a lot of natural light through two sides of the storefront windows. I brought in an oil lamp in anticipation of the shutdown. People didn’t seem to mind that their hair couldn’t be blown dry. They were just happy... Continue reading
