Tag: Xcel Energy

  • COVID-19 response: Minnesota solar industry pushing for incentive extensions

    Via ENN: An industry group had already been pushing for an extension of a popular solar incentive program set to end in 2021. Faced with a potential economic catastrophe from the coronavirus pandemic, Minnesota’s solar industry wants lawmakers to increase the budget for a solar program funded by Xcel Energy.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Xcel Energy tabs SunShare to build six new community solar gardens in Colorado

    SunShare was selected in a competitive bidding process by Xcel Energy to develop six new community solar gardens totaling 12 MWdc and will be able to serve more than 2,500 residential households in the Denver metro area as well as additional municipal, governmental, and educational entities. “We’re very proud thatRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Xcel Energy shows its path to 100 percent renewable generation by 2050

    Xcel Energy is officially all-in on renewable generation, laying out a plan to deliver 100 percent carbon-free electricity to customers by 2050. OK, so that’s fairly distant, but they plan to reduce carbon emissions 80 percent from 2005 levels in the eight states it serves by 2030. “This is anRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Five more community solar gardens now online in Minnesota

    The community solar movement in Minnesota keeps on growing. During the previous four months, five new community solar gardens have been brought online in the southeastern part of the state, located as far north as Benton County and as far south as Dakota County. They are part of a largerRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Renewable energy project in Colorado draws interest from Department of Energy

    The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is partnering with Panasonic Corporation and Xcel Energy to simulate and optimize the energy load profile of Peña Station NEXT, a planned 382-acre mixed-use development in Denver, Colo. The project will employ the grid modeling capabilities of NREL’s EnergyRead More — Solar Builder magazine