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BECKER — For more than 45 years, Xcel Energy's Sherburne County coal plant has been a constant, supporting the growth of the Twin Cities metro area with enough power for roughly 1.5 million homes.
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy announced this month that it closed one of three coal units at Sherburne County Generating Plant, Minnesota’s largest power plant, as part of its plans to deliver ...
Xcel Energy said anyone working at a retired coal plant who wants a job with the company will have one. According to Xcel officials, the Sherco project is expected to be completed in 2026 and will ...
BECKER, Minn. (GRAY) – Xcel’s brand new Sherco solar plant in Sherburne County, Minnesota, is now producing clean energy for households in the upper midwest. According to Xcel Energy’s ...
Hundreds of coal plants are shutting down across the U.S. WSJ goes inside Minnesota’s Sherburne County plant to learn what it takes to power down coal production—and how this plant is ramping ...
The Sierra Club is demanding that Xcel Energy retire part of a power plant on the Mississippi River. Some environmentalists say the two coal-burning generators at Xcel’s Sherburne County power plant, ...
The mine, which employees 108 people, had fed the Sherburne County Generating Station in Becker, ... Coal cuts: Aging power plants, cheap natural gas shutting off Montana coal.