Joint Senate Transportation & Energy and House Energy & Environment
A joint Senate and House energy panel spent the afternoon dissecting Xcel Energy's December public safety power shutoffs, with company president Robert Kenney defending the outages as sound wildfire policy while medically vulnerable residents, foothills business owners and emergency managers described uncompensated losses, failed generators and a downed line that reignited and burned before it was cut.
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“I'm a lawyer by training, but I haven't practiced law in a long time. But I will tell you that it doesn't matter if we did it or not. We maintain that we didn't start the Marshall Fire. People are going to sue us regardless.”
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Sign in to subscribeEveryone, committee is called to order. Miss Falco, can you please take the roll? Senators and Representatives Basley. President Ball. Excused. Barone. Excused. Catlin. Excused. DeGraffen. Excused. He was here. He's excused for the moment. Excused. Garcia. Sander. Excused. Goldstein. Here. Jackson. Excused. Joseph. Excused. One step. Here. Oh, Jackson is here as well. Yeah. Jackson. Moica. Excused. Pascal. Here. Pelton. Present. Rootneau. Excused. Saw. Excused. Smith. Here. Sullivan. Here. Sullivan. Here. Just walked in the room. Velasco. Here. Wilford. Excused. Valdez. Excused. And Madam Chair? Present. Thank you, Ms. Falco. So today, as you all know, we are here to talk with XL and some of the local government and state government representatives who were involved in the planned power shutdowns. Really, really appreciate it. I know you guys have been through it, got a lot of questions so we appreciate you being here again to answer them in this public, public hearing. We think it's really important. I know many of us have received lots of communications from our constituents about issues and real concerns they had and wanted to provide another public forum for them to listen and perhaps to share their experiences. Definitely share their experiences…
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