A central Minnesota city that is home to the largest coal-fired plant in the Upper Midwest is looking to diversify the local economy as Xcel Energy plans to retire most of the generators at the plant in the next seven years.

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A high-voltage power line built across western Wisconsin has been put into service after almost three years of construction.

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A utility serving 3.6 million electricity customers in Wisconsin and seven other states said on Tuesday it will try to eliminate all its carbon emissions from electrical generation by 2050.

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Heavy rains pounded Wisconsin and Minnesota Monday night, prompting evacuation orders for about 100 residents in one small Wisconsin town and flash flooding in parts of Minnesota, where people at a council meeting briefly took cover in a basement.

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Xcel Energy has proposed splitting up its utility operations in North Dakota and Minnesota, telling regulators that widening policy differences between the two states over clean energy have caused stresses that might best be resolved through a breakup.

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A project to remove contaminated sediments from a harbor on Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin is underway after years of planning and legal battles.

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Construction has wrapped up on a $180 million solar farm in Minnesota that's billed as the largest single solar project in the Midwest and one of the largest in the country.

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The state may purchase nearly 1,000 acres of land along the Lower Chippewa River in northwestern Wisconsin from Xcel Energy which once had plans to build a nuclear plant on the site.

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Xcel Energy expects two community solar gardens in western Wisconsin to be operational by the end of 2016.

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Xcel Energy filed an application with the Public Service Commission on Friday to raise the electricity and natural gas rates its customers will pay in 2017.

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