Amazon’s proposed data center in Minnesota would need nearly as much power as Xcel’s large Monticello nuclear plant now produces. Top House and Senate Democrats said support from the Prairie Island ...

Minnesota’s 31-year-old ban on new nuclear power plants is facing another challenge from utility companies and supporters of nuclear power, who say the technology is necessary to meet the state’s ...

Drones are prohibited from flying over nuclear power plants and other “sensitive facilities,” according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Prairie Island is one of two nuclear power plant ...

Republicans focus in on ways to alleviate pressures of Democrats' 2023 “Carbon Free by 2040” bill, while testimony from the ...

Xcel has said continuing to operate its two Minnesota nuclear plants, at Prairie Island and Monticello ... The Monticello plant produces enough energy to power more than half a million homes ...

The DFL-led Legislature and Gov. Tim Walz made national news earlier this year by announcing that all Minnesota energy utilities have 17 years to fully decarbonize. By 2040, all of the ...

The control room for units one and two at Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant in Welch, Minn. on Nov. 2, 2017. (Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The plant is Monticello’s largest employer and local taxpayer. Together with its counterpart near Red Wing, MN, the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Monticello provides nearly a quarter ...

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Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant pictured in 2017. GLEN STUBBE • [email protected] (Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...