Electrical currents travel in an instant, but the effort to ensure that electricity is generated in a carbon-free way is a years-long journey.

As Xcel Energy continues to deal with a leak of tritium at the Monticello nuclear power plant in 2022, officials announced ...

Minnesota's electric grid is becoming cleaner ... is closely correlated with natural gas prices because gas-fired power plants tend to be the “last” units called on to meet demand, Flakoll ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency disagreed with the utility's upgrading of its coal-fired plants without installing the best available emissions controls, according to the Star Tribune.

For the fifth year in a row, more than half of Minnesota’s electricity came from carbon-free sources, including wind, solar and nuclear power ... the state’s coal plants are expected to ...