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Fire Chief Chris LeTendre said he felt helpless watching the top of a utility pole burn, dropping embers near an apartment ...
The top wind gust reported so far was a whopping 79 mph from a bowing line of storms that roared through overnight.
Xcel Energy worked to restore power to thousands of people in Minnesota after storms rolled through the state Saturday ...
The Minnesota Solar Energy Industries Association calls the decision "a severe blow for Minnesotans" since cities, school ...
Xcel Energy said it has received approval from the MMPUC to have its Prairie Island nuclear plant continue operations into ...
As storms approach the Twin Cities and eastern Minnesota, they are weakening, prompting fewer severe thunderstorm warnings.
Fortunately, the state has a strong base of solar policy and new legislation queued up to continue advancing solar.
The Minnesota Wild, in partnership with the American Red Cross and HealthPartners, today announced they will host a blood ...
An electric utility company announced Thursday that one of its Minnesota plants leaked 400,000 gallons of radioactive water last year. The leak of water containing tritium from Xcel Energy’s ...
Independent energy companies — not Xcel itself — are building the solar gardens and marketing them to the utility's 1.2 million Minnesota customers.
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy has long had a single subsidiary for its electrical and gas businesses in the two states, Northern States Power Company-Minnesota. Xcel says it’s been a successful ...
Xcel Energy Inc., alarmed that its Minnesota community solar ­program has unleashed large-scale corporate solar development, on Tuesday said it will enforce size limits on projects — a ...