The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved a proposal by ITC Midwest and Xcel Energy to build the Huntley-Wilmarth transmission project.

Minnesota’s Xcel Energy is aiming to be coal-free by 2030, supported by extending service of its nuclear plant and using more natural gas-fired generation.

Xcel Energy reported it once again met or exceeded its earnings guidance, posting year-end profits of $1.26 billion, compared to $1.15 billion in 2017.

Record-breaking cold brought multiple appeals for conservation from utilities in the northern portions of MISO's footprint.

Until MISO files changes to implement stricter requirements for planned outage notification, stakeholders offered alternatives softening the proposal.

SPP will this year begin providing reliability coordinator services to more than a dozen entities in the Western Interconnection.

Xcel Energy committed to providing its customers with carbon-free energy by 2050, becoming the first large investor-owned utility to make such a pledge.

By Tom Kleckner American Electric Power said last week it will focus on smaller projects after Texas regulators put the kibosh on the company’s proposed $4....

FERC affirmed an administrative law judge’s decision to assign a Minnesota city’s portion of a 345-kV line to Northern States Power’s joint pricing zone.

AEP stock ended the week at $71.14/share, up $1.76, after it announced the cancellation of its Wind Catcher Energy Connection project.