News Releases

DENVER (April 7, 2023) - Xcel Energy is advising customers who are eager to start their spring planting or landscaping to always call 8-1-1 to have underground utility lines marked free of charge before starting any digging projects.April is National ...

AMARILLO, Texas (April 5, 2023) - Xcel Energy is advising customers who are eager to start their spring planting or landscaping to always call 811 to have underground utility lines marked free of charge before starting any digging projects.April is ...

DENVER, Colorado (April 5, 2023) - Six Colorado businesses have been honored for their outstanding energy efficiency work in 2022, which resulted in cutting more than 29,700 tons of carbon emissions in the state. That's equal to removing more than ...

Sioux Falls (April 3, 2023) — With winter conditions predicted in the Dakotas and northwest Minnesota this week, Xcel Energy is staging employees who will work to get the lights back on if customers lose power. We also have tips customers can use to ...

MINNEAPOLIS (4/3/23) — Xcel Energy would like to thank customers for their patience and understanding as more than 1,200 employees and contractors from across the region worked around the clock to safely restore power to customers following storms ...

DENVER (March 31, 2023) With hurricane force winds blowing across Colorado and along the Front Range, Xcel Energy has increased the number of employees and contractors they can call on to quickly and safely repair any damage the wind might cause and ...

AMARILLO, Texas (March 27, 2023) - Xcel Energy's Texas customers will soon see the benefits of an improved, high-tech electric grid as the company begins installing smart electric meters at their homes and businesses. Installation begins this week in ...

TREGO, Wisconsin (March 27, 2027) - On Monday, April 3, 2023, residents below Xcel Energy's Trego Dam, about eight miles north of Spooner, will hear a distinctive siren and voice message. At approximately 11 a.m., Xcel Energy, in coordination with ...

MINNEAPOLIS (March 23, 2023) - Xcel Energy will begin powering down its Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant tomorrow to allow it to more quickly perform the repairs needed to permanently resolve a leak of water containing tritium at the plant. The ...

MINNEAPOLIS (March 21, 2023) - Xcel Energy applied for a Certificate of Need earlier this month to build a transmission line that will link at least 2,000 megawatts of new renewable energy to the grid — enough to power more than 1 million homes per ...