Xcel Energy announced details about new wind farms and the next phase in its plans for one of the nation’s largest wind energy investments. By adding 1,550MW of new wind generation in the Upper Midwest, the propo...  more

Panasonic, Xcel Energy, and Younicos have released a white paper, A Portfolio Microgrid in Denver, Colorado: How a multi-use battery energy storage system provides grid and customer services through a public-private pa...  more

State and local leaders joined executives from NextEra Energy Resources and Xcel Energy this morning to celebrate the commissioning of New Mexico's largest solar energy projects – the Roswell and Chaves County Solar Ener...  more

Xcel Energy and SunPower jointly commenced operation of the 50MW Hooper Solar PV power plant in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. The PV plant utilizes SunPower’s Oasis® Power Plant system for increasing average power ge...  more

The Metropilitan Council of the Twin Cities’ waste water treatment plant now enjoys solar electricity generated by two solar power systems developed by SunEdison and Oak Leaf Energy Partners. The totaling 1,280kWac systems w...  more

Geronimo Energy (Geronimo) is teaming up with St. Paul Public Housing (SPPHA) to bring solar to their residents under Xcel Energy's Community Solar Garden Program. Residents of multi-unit housing have not traditionally been a...  more

SunShare, a rapidly growing community solar company with offices in Minneapolis and Denver, and Mortenson, a construction firms, has announced a strategic relationship to develop and build solar gardens in Minnesota. The announcem...  more

SunEdison has acquired a 156MW (DC) Comanche Solar project from renewable energy developer Community Energy. Partnering with Community Energy, SunEdison will begin to complete the final development stage of the so-called Comanche ...  more

Minnesota regulators have approved 29 renewable energy projects, predominately featuring solar technologies, to receive $42 million in grants from Xcel Energy’s Renewable Development Fund. “The fund’s objective i...  more

Citing the advantage of adding more solar energy at a lower customer cost, Xcel Energy submitted to state regulators a plan to add up to 150 MW of large-scale solar resources in its Upper Midwest service territory by the end of 20...  more