No advanced notice for our condos

Our electric bill is managed by Fair Energy, who bills each condo unit independently in our building. But our energy comes from Xcel.

Perhaps due to this middle man, we received no email or phone notice prior to our power being shut off around 3:10pm on Saturday, April 6th. Our power was not restored for 28 hours.

I can understand the need for wildfire mitigation, especially with global warming leading to more extreme weather events. Combined with an aging power grid not built to withstand hurricane force winds, it is indeed a challenge to prevent wildfires.

That said, it would be nice if for the future Xcel could actually notify everyone, including Boulder residents who are metered through Fair Energy and/or other middle men.

Also, we lost hundreds of dollars in spoiled food. We will survive. But others have even less than us and are struggling from it.