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Prairie Island is one of two nuclear power plants in Minnesota (the other being Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in Monticello). Prairie Island has attracted controversy in the early 21st century for its operator Xcel Energy's decision to store nuclear waste in large steel casks on-site.
US nuclear power plants, highlighting recently and soon-to-be retired plants, as of 2013 (US EIA). Nuclear power plant locations and nameplate capacity of the top 10 states. Power plants map August 2016. This article lists the largest nuclear power stations in the United States, in terms of Nameplate capacity.
In 2022, Minnesota had a total summer capacity of 18,460 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 58,966 GWh. [2] In 2023, the electrical energy generation mix was 25.4% wind, 24.4% natural gas, 22.1% coal, 20.7% nuclear, 3.5% solar, 2% biomass (including most refuse-derived fuels), 1.2% hydroelectric, 0.1% petroleum, and 0.5 ...
The aging nuclear plants are a crucial part of Xcel's plans for a carbon-free energy grid by 2040. Nuclear makes up about 30% of the utility's power supply in the Upper Midwest.
Xcel Energy initially pinpointed the cause of a lengthy outage at its Prairie Island nuclear power plant as an equipment issue between the turbine and the electric grid. But that didn't quite tell ...
Beyond the Prairie Island plant, Xcel said by 2030 it would seek 3,200 megawatts of new wind, 400 megawatts of large-scale solar and another 1,000 megawatts of other solar like from small-scale ...
In comparison, the single-unit Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant located less than four miles away has an output of 671 MW. [3] The state's other nuclear power plant , the 2-unit Prairie Island facility, is rated at 1,096 MW, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] so Sherco has a larger peak output than those plants put together.
Xcel Energy says it needs to store far more nuclear waste at its Prairie Island facility to extend the plant's life for 20 years, as it has proposed in its long-range plan. Keeping the plant's two ...