Like many exciting energy projects that have recently been finished or are in development, the Sherco facility is being built on the former site of a coal-powered power plant. Coal produces toxic ...
An Xcel Energy refund plan, if approved by regulators, will deliver $318 million back to Minnesota customers, the utility ...
Xcel officials are proposing returning $318 million to customers in the state. According to a news release, more than half of the refund ($176 million) comes from federal tax credits for nuclear ...
Xcel Energy on Monday proposed refunding Minnesota customers $318 million as the first use of a federal nuclear energy tax ...
Utilities are doing so by shifting to more renewables. Xcel Energy's Sherco coal plant in Becker is a mammoth maze of massive machinery. "What you see on the ground is about 2 million tons of coal ...
On Friday, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted 4-0 to reject a request for a permitting exemption on Amazon's plan to build 250 backup diesel generators for the site.
The Sherco solar project will be built in two phases adjacent to the existing Sherco coal-fired power plant near Becker, Minnesota. All three units of the coal plant are scheduled to be retired by ...
The Sherco power plant in Becker has already begun phasing out its coal units as part of Xcel Energy’s plans to move toward renewable energy. In its place, the company launched the first stage ...
Amazon is proposing to install 250 diesel generators at its planned data center on a parcel of land near the Xcel Sherco coal-fired power plant photographed earlier this month in Becker ...
Savings from lower fuel costs make up $94 million, or 30%, of the overall refund amount and $48 million is related to a 2011 outage at the company’s Sherco coal plant. If approved by the ...