Power restored to hundreds in Denver space after Sunday outages

UPDATE: Widespread energy outages attributable to failed Xcel Energy transformer

More than 185,000 clients had been left at midnight on Sunday as widespread energy outages hit the Denver space, in line with power utility officers.

During the height of Sunday’s outages, roughly 44,000 Core Electric Cooperative clients and 145,000 Xcel Energy clients had been with out energy, in line with the 2 utilities.

The widespread energy outages additionally induced disruptions at Denver International Airport and regulation enforcement businesses throughout the southeast metro space.

As of 5:15 p.m. Sunday, all however a handful of Core Electric‘s power outages had been resolved, according to the utility’s outage map. Just half-hour earlier, reported outages included:

• 23,416 clients in Arapahoe County,
• 20,242 clients in Douglas County,
• 692 clients in Elbert County,
• And 1 buyer in Adams County.

The reason behind the outages remained underneath investigation Sunday night, Core Electric spokesperson Amber King stated.

Xcel Energy spokesperson Michelle Aguayo confirmed in an e mail to The Denver Post that “a large outage” additionally impacted as many as 145,000 of that utility’s clients within the southeast metro space.

As of 5:47 p.m. Sunday, energy had been restored to all Xcel Energy clients, Aguayo stated.