DENVER — The power outage that at one point affected around 11,000 customers in downtown Denver Wednesday night was likely caused by debris being blown into a substation, Xcel told 9NEWS.
At the outage's height, Xcel Energy's outage map showed about two dozen separate outages impacting over 10,900 customers in downtown Denver in the neighborhood near Coors Field. Union Station and several surrounding buildings were without power for well over an hour.
Michelle Aguayo, a spokesperson for Xcel, told 9NEWS that their investigation showed debris was blown by wind into one of their substations, causing it to arc just after 7 p.m. The original boundary for the outages was from 14th Street to 20th Street and Platte to Champa.
According to Aguayo, at 9:40 p.m. there were still 871 people without power. Xcel said they hope to have power fully restored by 10:30 p.m.
The Regional Transportation District said that light rail trains C, E and W were up and running to Union Station during the outage but were delayed likely 20 or 30 minutes. The A and B lines were not affected by the outage, a spokesperson said.
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