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• Thousands left in the dark during NYC power outage
  On the anniversary of a 1977 blackout that hit most of New York City, a massive power outage brought the curtain down on Broadway shows and stalled traffic Saturday night on Manhattan streets. Underground, the power outage affecting 73,000 customers for hours also left the subway system in disarray.July 13, 2019
• Xcel Energy starts to dismantle lofty coal plant icon in Burnsville
  The 600-foot-tall chimney at the Black Dog power plant is no longer needed after the plant switched to natural gas.July 12, 2019
• Puerto Rico harnesses the power of the sun for a renewable energy future
  Puerto Rico has a plan to rebuild its energy grid and move to 100 percent renewable power by 2050. Many communities are working toward that themselves, without help from the government.July 5, 2019
• Xcel Energy's plans: 5 things to watch
  The state's largest utility has filed plans with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for how it will generate electricity for the next 15 years.July 1, 2019
• Pollinator-friendly solar energy becomes the norm in Minnesota
  The trend toward seeding pollinator-friendly plants at solar energy sites continues in Minnesota at Connexus Energy's new solar-plus-battery-storage project in Ramsey, Minn.June 20, 2019
• Going 'zero carbon' is all the rage. But will it slow climate change?
  Cities, states, businesses and electric utilities are setting ambitious goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But it's not clear exactly how they'll do that or whether it will actually work.June 18, 2019
• Massive blackout hits tens of millions in South America
  A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay on Sunday in what the Argentine president called an "unprecedented" failure in the countries' power grid.June 16, 2019
• Drone at work: Utility using machines to build power lines
  Xcel officials say drones will save time and money while increasing safety and reducing the environmental impact from heavy equipment.June 12, 2019
• Court lifts injunction blocking Keystone XL oil pipeline
  An appeals court has lifted a judge's injunction that blocked construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S., but the developer has said it's too late to begin work this year and environmental groups vowed to keep fighting it.June 7, 2019
• MN court says PUC didn't weigh oil spill impact in Line 3 pipeline decision
  In a victory for Line 3 opponents, the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday reversed the state Public Utilities Commission's approval of the Line 3 environmental review, saying it didn't address the potential impact of an oil spill into the Lake Superior watershed.June 3, 2019
• Damaged tower knocks out power to community in NE Minnesota
  A damaged switch tower has knocked out power in the city of Aurora in northeastern Minnesota.June 1, 2019
• Minnesota's departure from coal will mean more natural gas, nuclear
  Minnesota is in the midst of a historic transition in how it generates electricity. Xcel Energy last week announced plans to close all of its remaining coal-fired power plants in the state by 2030 -- and to increase its solar capacity in the Upper Midwest by 1,400 percent.May 28, 2019
• In Becker, little shock over news of coal plant's early demise
  Residents of the central Minnesota city were already bracing for the Sherco power plant to close two of its three coal-fired units. Now, with the possibility of the entire plant closing earlier than expected, residents are looking ahead to a post-coal future.May 28, 2019
• Energy negotiations unravel at the Capitol, leaving little accomplished
  The House wanted a 100 percent clean energy mandate. The Senate wanted tougher penalties for protesters who tamper with oil pipelines. In the end, there was barely more than a stakeholder group and an energy storage study.May 23, 2019
• Xcel's new plan: Coal-free by 2030, nuclear until 2040
  Xcel Energy said Monday it plans to shut its Minnesota coal plants, its last two in the Upper Midwest, a decade earlier than scheduled but seek a 10-year extension on its Monticello nuclear plant license.May 20, 2019

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