Thousands of Xcel Customers Still Without Power After Wind Storms

Why Xcel is Taking Days to Restore Power Two days after extremely high winds descended on Colorado’s Interstate 25 corridor, many Xcel Energy customers still do not have electricity.As of 1:00 p.m. today, April 8, the utility’s outage map indicated 41,073 customers are affected by 1,038 outages. Over 900 of those were in the greater Denver area, including Boulder and Longmont, but the largest amount of outages was in Lakewood, with over 700 impacted customers.Today's total is down from the 155,000 homes and businesses that experienced power outages over the...