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 Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Becker, Minn.

Many of the nation’s largest electric utilities are not on track to achieve their interim emission reduction goals or the ...

Xcel, Minnesota’s largest electric utility, plans to build one new gas plant in 2028 and keep ... Xcel is losing a major amount of its power supply by closing its Sherco and Allen S.

An Xcel Energy refund plan, if approved by regulators, will deliver $318 million back to Minnesota customers, the utility ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WJON News) -- An energy company is proposing to give back millions to customers in refunds in March. Xcel Energy has announced it plans to refund $318 million to customers from ...

With federal funding freezes affecting green energy, audience members wanted to know if the coal-fired Sherco power plant in Sherburne County would get to keep operating. Swedzinski said Minnesota ...

Specifically, the agreement includes adding 3,430 megawatts (MW) of wind energy by 2030, connecting to the Upper Midwest grid at the Sherco plant site in Becker ... and build a hydrogen-capable ...

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 ... Xcel Energy’s operates ...

The tech giant was hoping to avoid a drawn-out permitting process, and had argued the generator facility should be exempt because, as it would only be used for Amazon's data center in case of a power ...

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces since the early days of the war, could be restored and ...