Power restored to thousands in Denver area after Sunday outages

UPDATE: Widespread power outages caused by failed Xcel Energy transformer

More than 185,000 customers were left in the dark on Sunday as widespread power outages hit the Denver area, according to energy utility officials.

During the peak of Sunday’s outages, roughly 44,000 Core Electric Cooperative customers and 145,000 Xcel Energy customers were without power, according to the two…