DENVER — No power at home? You're likely one of more than 2,200 Xcel Energy customers around the Denver metro area waiting for the lights — and heat — to come back on.
Xcel Energy crews have been working since Thursday morning to restore electricity to thousands of homes as a major snowstorm bore down on the Front Range, leaving heavy, wet snow clinging to power lines and poles.
As of 7:55 p.m., crews are working on 217 outages impacting 2,243 customers, mostly in west and south Denver.
This is a decrease from 7:55 p.m. when 3,598 customers were without power, 5:50 p.m. when 5,617 customers were without power, 12:27 p.m., when 7,738 customers were without power and 11:47 a.m., when 8,871 were without power.
More than 300 full-time employees are working 16-hour shifts to quickly and safely restore power, the company said.
Since 6 a.m. Thursday, Xcel Energy has fixed 1,200 individual outages that impacted 106,904 customers, the company said on Friday afternoon.
The company said that weather conditions have improved, but some areas are still difficult to access.
"While we expect majority of customers to have service restored today, we anticipate work to continue overnight and into tomorrow morning," it said around 4 p.m. Friday. "We know losing power is inconvenient, and we appreciate our customers’ understanding and patience as our crew members work to turn the lights back on."
For more information, see Xcel Energy's interactive outage map here. Click here for the latest updates on the storm's impacts.
