Xcel Energy News

Local energy providers are experiencing a hefty increase in natural gas costs, which could mean an even chillier winter for customers.

Xcel Energy customers in St. Cloud can expect a bill if they didn't get one for their natural gas use earlier this year.

Downed power lines have caused an outage around U.S. Highway 287 and Baseline Road in Lafayette that is snarling traffic in the area, according to Boulder County dispatchers and Xcel Energy spokesmen.

Minnesota's utilities face a daunting task: the state has told them to cut their sales of electricity and natural gas by one-and-a-half-percent a year.

Many Broomfield residents are in the dark as an electrical power outage has left about 3,800 Xcel Energy customers without electricity.

Xcel Energy said Wednesday that it expects to shut off 72,000 Colorado customers this year because of delinquent bills, a 33 percent increase from 2007.

Xcel Energy expects to turn off power to 47,000 Colorado customers in the second and third quarters this year because they failed to pay their bill on time.

Denver Post follows up on their utility company's customers getting disconnected.

Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens has been aggressively touting wind power as an alternative energy source, indicating that the wind energy industry may have reached a tipping point in interest and investment.

Tim Taylor is president and CEO of Public Service Company of Colorado , a subsidiary of Xcel Energy Inc.

A strong storm system plowed through the Twin Cities Friday night, leaving behind it a trail of downed trees and power lines.

Amarillo officials are questioning more than $100 million in proposed statewide revenue increases by Southwestern Public Service.

City Council denied a rate increase for Xcel Energy. Xcel was asking for an increase of about $120 for the average home during the summer months.

Sharel Doyle, whose power was shut off by Xcel Energy in March before she got financial help, sits in her apartment Tuesday.

The City of St. Paul and a coalition of Republican National Convention protesters appeared to move slightly closer to settling their differences over a proposed march route during the RNC.

Amarillo city commissioners approved a contract to house city jail inmates in Randall County and subsequently free up valuable downtown real estate.

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Rick Adams Xcel Energy crews are getting ready to pull the plug on the local government.

The Coaliton to March on the RNC and Stop the War is engaged in a legal battle with the City of St.

The state's four largest electricity providers will partner on a large-scale commercial solar generating plant.

Low-income people whose power was disconnected this spring when they couldn't pay their heating bills should be first in line for $875,000 in federal energy assistance that recently became available, local ...