Electrical Service
From:
Ken Yokanovich
Date:
Mar 26 19:57 UTC
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I moved into Roseville in 1999 and I feel like in terms of electrical
service to the house from Xcel Energy, we moved to some sort of rural
no-man's land. It seems like our power goes out quite frequently.
While we have not kept records of how frequently the power goes out on our
block, it seems quite frequently. This past summer was the worst, almost two
complete days. Long enough to have to dispose of everything in our
refrigerator and deep freeze. We "survived" by doing a little urban camping
and grilling. In fact hosted an ad-hoc pot luck to commiserate with
neighbors in a celebratory "clean out your fridge" party.
Our side of the street seems to be on a different service because it has
been particularly frustrating to be living without electricity while the
neighbors across the street are fine.
On Monday, we experienced a strange sort of brown-out where only about half
of our electricity in the house worked just fine, the other half didn't.
This was somewhat disturbing as I was concerned that there may have been
some strange electrical fire or short somewhere in the house. We were
finally relieved of that concern when I talked to neighbors who were
experiencing the same problem.
So, the question is... how do we best approach this problem?
Consider having the house wired for a backup generator?
Contact Xcel and attempt to lodge a complaint to which they will likely say
"sorry" or "big deal"
Band together as neighbors, attempt to come up with details of how
frequently the power has been out and use the power of many people to
complain?
Pursue a simpler lifestyle less-dependent upon modern convenience or
electricity?
When was the last time the power went out at your house?
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