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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 ...
Xcel Energy has promised state officials its Prairie Island nuclear power plant is almost back to full power despite the outage dragging on for nearly two months longer than expected. The ...
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.
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 ...
Illinois electricity production by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Illinois, sorted by type and name.In 2022, Illinois had a total summer capacity of 44,163 MW and a net generation of 185,223 GWh through all of its power plants. [2]
Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant: Monticello, Minnesota: 671 1 Boiling Water Reactor: Xcel Energy: 1971 Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant: Red Wing, Minnesota: 1,092 2 Pressurized Water Reactor: Xcel Energy: 1974
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 ...
The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a rapid growth in the development of nuclear power in the United States. By 1976, however, many nuclear plant proposals were no longer viable due to a slower rate of growth in electricity demand, significant cost and time overruns, and more complex regulatory requirements.