I just had service turned on and the technician who came to turn it on was one of the most delightful human beings I've met lately. His name was Victor, and he's a younger guy. Just went above and beyond to be helpful, but more than that, he also had such a pleasant and kind demeanor that I wanted to make him stay and be my new BFF. What a sweetheart. As a woman who is often home alone for these calls, I've had more than one uncomfortable experience. Victor just radiates reassurance and put me instantly at ease. I called his supervisor, Steve, to tell him what a good experience I had, but I also want to recognize him on here. He was only here for about 20 minutes, total, but made a very positive impression. He turned on the line, was very friendly to my pets, and then took the time to both explain how the water heater and furnace system work, how to check them for any problems, how to adjust the water heat level, and then checked around the house for CO leaks, because I'm a jeweler and have had false positives due to my acetylene torch. He was efficient, so it's not like he wasted time, but in that short amount of time, I learned things about my house's heating/water that I'm embarrassed I made it to this age without knowing. Also, the exhaust tube for the water heater wasn't lined up properly, so he adjusted it and double tested it to make sure my kids and I would be safe from CO leaks. If every big company had employees this competent, personable, and helpful, you'd have a lot fewer Karens b*tching about things. Victor, if you ever see this and are in the market for a new bestie, I'm in read more

Xcel is awful. Another power outage right now in Erie, CO. It's a perfect weather day - not hot, no snow, no wind and no power. This is happening more and more often. And Xcel wants to raise rates AGAIN by 8%. I would switch to another provide but guess what - I can't. They have a monopoly. Lousy service and raised rates. You don't need to provide good service when your customers cannot go elsewhere. Ridiculous. read more

Xcel Energy is the worst company with extremely bad customer service. if I had a choice, I would never used its services. I have a few accounts with this company, which didn't send its bill to customers, and over charged me all the time. Since last year, this company started to bill to me, after so many customers complained for years, but it sends my bills to wrong address. It won't changed my addresses to the right ones, after I requested over and again. With this address confusing, I paid my bills to wrong account, which made one account was overpaid for $400, the other one was later for $252.89. Thus yesterday I received a 'Residential Notice of Discontinuance of Utility Service', asking me to pay $252.89 in 10 days. With the Notice in hand, I called Xcel Customer Service, the customer representative checked with my name and add, then told me I don't owe any money, but have $342.58 credit. she said ignore this letter, just throw it away. I asked her to check carefully, as I have a few accounts, finally she found one of my accounts is due for $252.89. She became very rude, saying it was my fault not to pay bills on time, as if she totally forgot she just told me not to worry about the bill. I told her because the billing address was not correct, that confused me, though I tried to pay each of them on time. The fact was I did pay on time, so I begged her to tell me how much I was penalized, and if she could excuse me this time, or if I could speak to her manager about it. She started to yell at me, " No, no manager is available, I can't never waive Any charges nor fees, I only can transfer your payment to the right account. Do you want to do or not? I asked again how much was the charge and fees, why her manager is not available, she refused to answer any of the questions. I had to call again, to take this issue to another Xcel customer representative, whose name was Kelly. She is worse than the other one. She told me that she can not transfer my money from the wrong account to the right one, as it was not their mistake. But that is my money, and I paid my money to the wrong account, because of they sent the bill to wrong address. My money was paid to Xcel on time, and now the money is still in Xcel 's hand. How can Xcel fined me, shut down my utilities, while it has my full payment in its hand? After I spent hours to communicate with the worst customer service representatives, I could not fix any of my problems, they instituted not to transfer my money to my right account, but send a check back to me, in a month. How hateful! read more

Xcel Energy - Residential Notice Of Discontinuance of Utility Service - Electricity Suppliers Near Me - Denver, Colorado

Putting notices on peoples doors with adhesive on them is an insane choice. There is now adhesive stuck to my custom made, brand new front door. In what world is this acceptable. read more

The person I talked to over the phone about the power outage for my apartment was extremely rude and not clear on what they said most of the time (even though I was trying my best to be as polite as possible) They also haven't fixed the power and it has been several hours. I get not getting sleep and being a bit grumpy but please don't let your employees take it out on the customers read more

Xcel is truly one of the worst companies operating in Denver. When I moved into my home two years ago, I initially reached out to set up my service, but I was informed that my property in North Colorado was serviced by United Power instead. Based on that information, I didn't press the issue further and established my connection through United Power. Over the next two years, I never received a single bill, phone call, or any form of communication from Xcel. Despite this, they suddenly showed up at my door demanding payment for a service I was completely unaware I had and had never been billed for. To make matters worse, a representative eventually confirmed that the address they had on file for me wasn't even correct. read more

Yet again, they shut the power off!!! How am I supposed to work from home when this company continues to shut the power off!! Oh and this time I received the message after 20 mins of the power outage. Well duh I can already see you shut the power off!! How do we get Xcel to STOP doing this???!!! How about you update your grid, it's 2026!! Get it together!! Wish I could give zero stars!! read more

Excel left their utility pole tied to a tree for 6 months. I tried several times to get anyone in management to call me about this but they never did. I was told by customer service at Xcel that the company wasn't sure if the utility pole was an Xcel owned pole. There is a metal plate on the pole that clearly has Xcel engraved on it . Xcel doesn't take care of hazardous conditions that their company creates. read more

This company is so greedy. It is such a monopoly. I swear the bill is inflated every month. I get something sky high. The lack of customer service is atrocious. I would never refer this company for anybody. Unfortunately since it's my only option, I am stuck with them. read more

I selected a 1 because you can't pick no stars! I have had a gas pump making noise for a YEAR now. It has become so loud that my neighbors are complaining. You can hear it no matter where you are IN the house, with the windows closed, and it goes all night. I have been calling to ask them to come see what is wrong for this entire year, but they are too busy with other issues and was actually told that I am on a list but it could be another year or more until someone comes out...worst customer service ever! You would think after creating fires in Louisville they would be more attentive but I guess they just don't care .. read more

Total rip off, utilities were much cheaper in Chicago and the power never went out there!

Be very mindfull of requesting any work from xcel colorado as they will refuse to provide you with a breakdown of any cost associated with any project even though they are hiring out subcontractors. Heres your $5000 bill just pay it and dont ask questions.. terrible customer service, terrible buisness model, terible respinse times = terrible company! Report them to DORA. read more

Is it possible to give them no stars? What a worthless company, every time it's windy, which happens a lot in Colorado, we lose power. Often for the entire day. My wife works from home and has to take the day off, because of their useless power grid. Then, we'll get periodic updates that in no way reflect how long they will take to fix the problem. Their website is pretty much useless to get information from, so we're just stuck without power. Couldn't recommend less. read more

Overall, my experience with Xcel has been pretty spotty. For the last 3 months, I've not had them as a provider, but I've been getting little ghost bills. What I thought was my final bill, another $36 I thought maybe was the residual, $14, $12. I put in a stop service order at the beginning of the year, and then again with an explanation in April. After no response to my explanation, they started to call and tell me my bill is due... I called and spoke to Sara, who was honestly not helpful, doesn't have a supervisor or anyone who might be more helpful, and decided instead of waiting with me on the phone for a real adult to come help that she'd rather hang up. I am curious if others have experienced a lot of issues with discontinuing service with Xcel. Do they have a ghost billing department? read more

Our power was just shut off today without any disconnect notice without any warning without anything telling us why our power was being shut off after calling customer service come to find out they think we're still responsible for a $4,000 bill from them not shutting off the power at a residence from 2022 which I am positive a phone call was made to them telling them to shut off the power because we were switching power companies to United power due to the location of our new place they did not and are still trying to hold us responsible for the $4,000 bill and a second one on top of that cuz they didn't shut off the power from that residence either or the other gas sorry so therefore I'm supposed to be responsible for a 4,200 bill that is mine and they're not turning on my power until I make some kind of payment arrangement contact the public utilities commission public utilities commission sent an email out that they were to eliminate the bill we did not owe the money did they do that no they're still trying to hound us and chase us down for the money so I'm contacting the public utilities commission again so hopefully they get fined or sued or something we have a 7 year old child that relies on a breathing machine every single day she has to use her breathing machine but that doesn't matter to them medical emergency or you know medical reasons why we need power isn't good enough for them to not shut it off or turn it back on for that matter until we make a payment arrangement for Bill that is ours be careful out there people power is actually free it doesn't cost them anything to create it absolutely nothing yet they charge us out the ass for it absolutely ridiculous greedy pieces of s*** f*** Excel energy read more

Terrible, this company is the worst. We have experienced 14 outages in a year. I spent over an hour and half with customer service and they provided me with excuses, then told me they were going to investigate why we experienced so many outages. I have not heard a single update from them. It's increasingly frustrating that this is our only energy option. read more

Xcel cut my internet and phone lines and didn't even tell me I reported a downed power line in my yard to Xcel, and the next day they repaired it. In the process, they cut my internet and phone lines. They didn't tell me (the only way I knew is that I happened to see their truck drive away) and they didn't call me. They left the cut lines draped across my yard. They didn't contact anyone else to come fix it. I had to wade through 7 levels of phone menus to finally speak to someone, only to have them tell me it's my problem to deal with. read more

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I use to pay my bill online but now I have to pay by mail. Ridiculous! Xcell diverts you to a site called Kubra if you try to pay online. Kubra just forces you to go around in circles and will not complete the transaction. You'd think Xcell would correct this. Get a clue! read more

If you have power being supplied by this company you might want to invest in a generator. What a mess of a company. Will they refund us our perishable food items as this has ben a two day ordeal? What about all the elderly on oxygen that need power?! Better get used to it as this is the new normal. read more

This year, we have already had 5 outages. 1 in April, 2 in May, and 2 in June. They can never tell me what the outage is for at the time and always around 4 hours to resolve it. I work from home and lose my wages every time the power goes out, but they sure want their money each month. read more

Last year a tech rang my bell and asked to schedule a service replacing my meter with a smart meter. I am not confident in the safety of those so I declined. Today I come home to a sign on my door saying they installed it anyway without my consent. I am livid, and it's after hours for customer service so I have to wait to speak to a human there until tomorrow. I feel trespassed and violated and we will be switching energy companies if another one is available in our area. read more

My power has been out for OVER 25 hours because of wind that NEVER CAME! Xcel is the devil. Thanks for being the worst company!

There's almost NO WIND and yet our power is cut off due to it. Why don't you tell us all what's REALLY going on?! If this is the new normal ( any wind or even the risk of wind you cut off all our power) I will MOVE!!! This is not service this is a bad joke. Too bad there's no other energy company you monopolizing monsters. read more

This is probably the worst electricity company in the entire country. I moved into my apartment last year. In that time I have had 6 outages, each lasting multiple days. There is little to no customer service. And when you call to complain you have to lie to the automated phone system in order to talk to a real person to get real information. The warnings are given way too close to the event happening and leave almost no time for preperation. And when they do finally turn your power back on there's no guarantee that they won't turn it off again later that day. They turn the power off every single day that it's windy out, which is quite often since I live on the Front Range. And when you go to check the website they just tell you that they're working on the problem. Half the time the website doesn't even work and has little to no information on when the power is going to come back on or what they are doing to fix it. I got lucky on the last one and only lost power for about 2 days. But I knew people who were without power for nearly a week. And I know that there was no rhyme or reason to the shutoffs because the buildings literally 20 feet from my apartment all had power the entire time. This company is worthless and should be paying us to use their shitty electricity. read more

Worse the horrible I would give no stars but it made me give 1. I have had excel for a year and I have been on someone's else's meter the entire time. I have called for 10 months trying to get them to resolve the issue it took a yr and they will only go back 6 months to make it right and then over charged me for electric I didn't use as I am hardly home and I use the bare minimum to avoid high cost since I had no idea what I was really paying. Customer service is rude and if you ask to much they get attitude with you. I wish we had a choice on the company we could use it not fair to the customer to be forced to use a company who do wrong by their customers. Please some other electric company come give greeley co a choice so we can get rid of xcel for good. read more

Stop using incompetent Asplundh. This company stated they were coming Aug 8 or 9 and were no shows! I have video footage of the conversation with Asplundh, then shows up today, busted through a closed gate, before knocking on elderly homeowner's door AKA TREPASSING and hacked up a beautiful tree, WTF! I called xcel asking for an operation manager to call me back and crickets completely unacceptable on xcels part and Asplundhs part, maybe the news can look into this shady practice. read more

this company has caused me so much stress and many sleepless nights. it is exhausting to have to struggle so much just to try to make a single damn payment. i wish there were other options where we live. i would switch in a heartbeat read more

its been 24 hours now and xel fucking energy has not showed up to do anything. sweltering heat and humidity, food going bad, what a horrible joke that company is. But they will bill us onetime. FUCK XEL ENERGY read more

I go onto their website to pay my bill, I fill in my name, account # and zip code, then it says 'we'll reach out to the account holder and see if it's okay for you to pay your bill', I AM account holder, have lived here at this address for 35 YEARS! I even tried call gas leaks, and got the run around there also. NO live agents, NO customer service, unless you are on a supplemental government assistance program, you're shit of of luck@! Fuck Xcel! They overcharge and can't even hire CS agents!@ read more

Please read photo captions. They tell the story. Xcel gave us no notice will replacing the line. They came when we were out of town. Made a total mess. Did not finish. And took out our back fence in our dog run away. Left hazards and a mess, and when I called they will not this one they will be able to come back, No promise to clean up, and no promise to fix the fence that they destroyed. read more

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if I could give a zero, I would, I went through the portal to schedule a simple sleeve placement over a live wire so that my crew could do a siding job. application was received. I got a confirmation number and it was never completed. This was over two months ago when I call to address the issues I'm put through a series of call menus, and transfers that end up leading nowhere. it is impossible to talk to somebody and they have no reason to care since they've monopolized the energy industry in Colorado. like I said before, a 1 star review is far too favorable for these sobs read more

If I can, i would give them a 0. Bad customer service/support. I have to wait 40 minutes out of my day to talk to someone. I was on a payment plan, paid it on the due date with a card, I didn't realize it takes 3 to 4 business days to go through, so I had to pay more money to set up another payment arrangement plan.... read more

My girlfriend moved from Rollingstone mn to Winona mn at the beginning of the year and they are still charging her for one of the meters from the old house but they said there's nothing they can do. Someone needs to look into this company. read more

They keep billing me after I already closed my account moved out of state. And I paid the full balance... after several calls they're telling me that balance is $0 but they're still billing me. This is ridiculous. I do not recommend Xcel Energy! read more

The amount of money I pay compared to the amount of time my power goes out is ridiculous. This company is horrible! Power goes out for who knows what reason and they continue to push the time back for restoration. If only there was another electrical company, maybe they would do a better job at getting their shit together and providing quality service. read more

Here's the deal: I called Xcel Energy's residential line at (800) 895-4999 to ask a simple question about an underground natural gas line marked with yellow flags that say "Xcel." I waited for about 30 minutes, and when the representative answered, she didn't know the answer to my question: "Can a large dump truck back onto the flagged area to dump xeriscaping rocks on my front yard? Will it be safe?" She told me to call 811, as they would know the answer. I called 811 and asked the representative, but he didn't know either. He told me to call Xcel Energy for that. He also didn't know how deep the gas pipes are buried. In the end, I wasted 30 minutes of waiting time for nothing. It feels like neither company knows what they are doing. Very disappointing. read more

If I could leave a ZERO rating I would. I am trying to call them to find out why they show I have an outstanding balance even though paid the bill on time. Their multi-tier phone menu is ridiculous which ended with "we are only accepting calls for emergencies". So they don't have time or staff to help customers with non-emergency problems - WHY NOT! This is what happens when you have a service monopoly. Ridiculous. They are also the only utility bill I pay that charges extra for credit card payment which is why I mail in my payment. read more

If i could give zero stars I would. I have been trying to get rebates for my mini splits for over a year. They keep saying 6-8 weeks, and then come up with more excuses - paperwork not correct, new software change - so add another two months, etc. Now I was told that I was passed the expiration date. It's been insane to deal with this and I'm going to keep fighting it because it's just plain criminal how xcel energy has dealt with this. They obviously don't want to give out the rebates they advertise. read more

I've reported two streetlights that have been out for over a month. Xcel sent a truck out last week and they fussed around for a bit and then left, and... nothing. Streetlights are still out. WTF? I've submitted my second report. The form they have is stupid: there's a box that says "submitted for" and it requires that you fill that out. Who do you THINK I'm submitting a report of a broken streetlight for? The Mayor? Donald Trump? What a stupid question and you MUST answer it or the form is rejected. Fix the GD streetlights, Xcel. We've got a crime problem here and having NO STREETLIGHTS IS UNSAFE. Thanks so much, Xcel for helping criminals do their stuff without having to fret about being seen. read more

We lost our power this afternoon and it just came back on! To the Xcel team that works so hard to restore our power YOU ROCK! Thank you for your hard work ! We are cool again! read more