As Colorado PUC prepares for Xcel hearing, Boulder business owners say all they wanted was clear communication

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Veronica Acosta joined Denver7 in January 2021 as a reporter.

BOULDER, Colo. — The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is taking its first step into investigating Xcel Energy's decision to implement precautionary outages for thousands of Coloradans ahead of a dangerous windstorm earlier this month with a virtual hearing Wednesday afternoon.

"We heard from an employee, we didn't get reached. Excel didn't reach out to us as a business, we heard from an employee who said, 'Hey, did you get this text, they might be shutting down the power at three o'clock," said Bobby Stuckey, who owns Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder. Better communication with business owners is what the Boulder Chamber of Commerce is now asking of Xcel.

"Information was critical," said John Tayer, the Boulder Chamber of Commerce President and CEO."Knowing what they expected in terms of who would be out and for how long of a period of time."

 

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