Xcel Energy Inc. is telling dozens of Colorado cities and towns that starting Jan. 1, they won't be allowed to hang decorative banners, flags or decorations on its power poles any longer.

Rodriguez said Xcel owns the line up to the meter and "the customer" owns it after that. He said the customer that owns that line, Polaris Operating LLC, filed for bankruptcy due to pending claims.

Those realities have prompted Xcel Energy to ramp up its efforts to routinely inspect and occasionally replace aging equipment before it fails. Xcel has roughly 500,000 poles statewide, with an ...

Xcel’s statement came a week after the company said that it had been asked by a law firm to preserve a fallen pole belonging to its Southwestern Public Service Co. subsidiary. Since then, a resident ...

Xcel said 47 occupied homes in Hemphill County and up to 17 in Roberts County were destroyed by the fire. Both are rural counties near or along the border with Oklahoma.

Xcel is also fighting nearly 300 lawsuits filed by homeowners, businesses and local governments in Colorado that claim the company's equipment is to blame for the state's 2021 Marshall Fire in ...

Xcel Energy Inc. on Friday called the flood damage to its poles, wires, electrical equipment and natural gas pipelines in Colorado “unprecedented.” The company said it expects that ...

Xcel Energy’s acknowledgment comes after news that a Canadian, Texas, resident filed a lawsuit on March 1 against the power company, claiming a faulty electrical utility pole was to blame for ...

Texas Lawmakers Fault Xcel Power Pole in State’s Largest ... Xcel has said that its equipment was likely involved in the Smokehouse Creek fire and took a $215 million first-quarter charge to ...