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Colorado: official power outage sources
Colorado has two investor-owned utilities, Xcel Energy (Public Service Company of Colorado) and Black Hills Energy, plus 22 electric cooperatives and 28 city or town utilities. The Public Utilities Commission oversees the investor-owned utilities; cooperatives and city utilities are governed differently. Tri-State and Platte River sell power wholesale to local utilities and do not serve homes directly.
Outages in Colorado right now
Not shown on this site. Power Grid Watch does not have live outage information for Colorado. That does not mean there are no outages. Use the official links below to check and to report.
If your power is out
- Stay away from downed lines and anything touching them. Call 911.
- Report it to your own utility. The name and outage phone number are on your electric bill. Do not assume a neighbor has reported it.
- Check your utility's outage page for the area affected and any restoration estimate. Only your utility can give that estimate.
Utility outage pages
Each link covers only that utility's own customers. If your provider is not listed here, use the directories in the next section.
- Xcel Energy Outage page my.xcelenergy.com
- Black Hills Energy Outage page blackhillsenergy.com
- Colorado Springs Utilities Outage page Report outages or downed lines at 719-448-4800. csu.org
Official state sources
Use these to find out which utility serves an address, to reach the regulator, and to follow state emergency information.
- Colorado General Assembly: electricity generation, distribution and regulation brief Provider directory Explains which kinds of utilities serve Colorado and how each is governed. content.leg.colorado.gov
- Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Emergency management State emergency information and links to local emergency managers. dhsem.colorado.gov
- National Weather Service Weather alerts Enter your town or ZIP code for current watches and warnings. A weather warning is not an outage prediction. weather.gov
Good to know in Colorado
- Xcel Energy and Black Hills Energy maps only show their own customers; cooperative and city utility customers should check with their own provider.
- Some cooperatives based in neighboring states serve small parts of Colorado, so your provider may not be headquartered here.
- Tri-State and Platte River are wholesale suppliers; report outages to the local utility that sends your bill.
The wider grid
Regional grid organizations and balancing areas that cover all or part of Colorado: Xcel Energy (PSCO) balancing area; Southwest Power Pool (western expansion, April 2026); WAPA. They balance supply and demand on the high-voltage system. Their alerts describe the regional system, not an outage on your street. How the pieces fit together
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