Xcel Energy News

Analysts have been sending out research reports to clients again this week. The following is a review of the most important upgrades for the week of May 14 till May 18.

Colorado regulators have approved a new cap on solar installations eligible for subsidies that Xcel Energy Inc.

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Looking from the south eastern suburb of Montebello, Calif., electric power transmission lines span the downtown Los Angeles skyline at sundown, Wednesday, Jan.

's stock had its "neutral" rating reaffirmed by Zacks in a report released on Tuesday.

Xcel Energy's local manager said the power supplier is working to avoid large scale outages similar to the one that left approximately 3,500 customers in the dark for several hours early Monday.

Van Halen Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul Saturday, May 19, 2012 The David Lee Roth-led version of Van Halen is a throwback to a time when arena rock actually rocked .

Xcel Energy Inc plans to shut the 339-megawatt Unit 2 at the Harrington coal-fired power plant in Texas between May 20-29, a unit of the Minnesota based power company told Texas regulators.

CLX -0.4% RBCAA +0.1% XEL +0.04% TIF +0.86% WMB -0.4% SWY -0.05% AIZ -2.95% NOC -0.7% The past month has been difficult for stock market investors.

The Minneapolis-based utility has seen two consecutive quarters of lower electricity sales, which contributed to a 10 percent drop in first-quarter earnings.

Getting permission from regulators to limit Boulder customers' access to conservation and renewable energy programs would be "suboptimal," compared to working out a deal directly with Boulder officials, the president and CEO of Xcel Energy's Colorado operations told a group of business leaders Thursday.

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Xcel Energy Inc. : The board increased the quarterly dividend to 27c per share from 26c per share.

Granite City Food & Brewery Ltd. , Minneapolis, has completed the sale-leaseback of its real property in Troy, Mich., which opened to the public last week.

Electricity and natural gas companyA Xcel Energy Inc . raised its quarterly common stock dividend by one cent, to 27 cents per share from 26 cents, with its second quarter dividend payable July 20 to shareholders as of June 21.

The Xcel Energy Inc. board of directors today raised the quarterly dividend on the company's common stock from 26 cents per share to 27 cents per share, which is equivalent to an annual rate of $1.08 per share.

Separately, analysts at Robert W. Baird upgraded shares of Xcel Energy from a "neutral" rating to an "outperform" rating in a research note to investors on Monday.

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Sherburne County Generating Station, better known as Sherco, is a power-producing workhorse.

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