1. Clean Energy that Works
for Minnesota
Ann M. Seha
Assistant General Counsel
April 18, 2012

2. Xcel Energy
Northern States
Power Company-
Northern States Wisconsin
Power Company-
Minnesota
Public Service
Company of Colorado
Southwestern Public
XCEL ENERGY
Service Company
Electric Customers 3.4 million
Gas Customers 1.9 million
NSPM
Electric Customers 1.4 million
Gas Customers 484,720

3. A balanced clean energy strategy
Clean, reliable and affordable power
 Diverse resource mix
 Benefits at a reasonable cost
 Environmental improvement through:
Emission controls
Repowering
Increase existing nuclear plant electricity output
Renewable energy
Customer choice with energy efficiency &
renewable programs

4. Changing Power Supply

5. Metropolitan Emissions Reduction
Project
 $1 billion project to modernize
and reduce emissions from three
coal-fired plants
 Converted two plants to natural
gas and rehabilitated a third with
new equipment and emission
controls between 2005 and 2009

6. Renewable Energy
 A growing portion of our
power supply
 On target to meet
Minnesota’s renewable
energy standard of 30
percent by 2020

7. Customer Choice
In 2011, Minnesota customers:
 Saved 242 GWh of electricity through our energy
efficiency programs, enough to power 30,000 homes
 Lowers customers’ bills
 Reduces the need for new power plants
 Purchased 168,441 MWh of wind energy through
Windsource® (21,774 participating customers)

8. Producing results

9. Producing results