Customers of a power company not named Xcel Energy are about to lose power because of Xcel Energy.

About 5,000 customers served by United Power in the foothills southwest of Boulder have been warned that their power will be shut off from 11 p.m. Saturday until 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

Xcel provides power through a substation in Coal Creek Canyon, which supplies electricity for United Power customers.

“I like to keep the temperatures in here, at least, in the upper 60s, if not higher,” Nico Novelli said.

Novelli lives in Coal Creek Canyon and cares for 42 animals.

“Not everybody has wolves roaming around their house and rooms full of pythons and anacondas,” Novelli said.

No, they sure do not.

But if they did, they would also know reptiles require heating pads and heat lamps.

“Most of them are in the 70s, 80s, in some cases the hotspots in their enclosures could be over 100 degrees,” Novelli said.

United Power notified him and almost 5,000 total customers about the weekend overnight power outage, on what will be the coldest day in months.

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