Claire Lavezzorio is a reporter at KMGH Denver7 in Denver, Colorado.
SEDALIA, Colo. — Two of the main companies that supply power to thousands of Coloradans took two different approaches during last weekend's windstorm.
The much smaller utility, CORE Electric Cooperative, saw 12,000 customers lose power at the height of the storm — but those lights went out because of storm damage, not because of preemptive power shutoffs. In an email to its customers, CORE Electric made it clear it didn’t preemptively turn off any part of its system last weekend.
“I believe we made absolutely the right decision. We have damage on our electric lines. That is due to wind,” said Hollie Velasquez Horvath, regional vice president of Xcel Energy, during a news conference on Sunday.“We didn't for this storm, and we haven't in the past, but it is part of our program. And if we found that, you know, things weren't working properly with those alternate relay settings, then we would have had to take that next step,” said Jurgemeyer.
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