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		<title><![CDATA[Xcel's Wind Power Experiments May Only Multiply Questions for the Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/energy/1000438/xcels-wind-power-experiments-may-only-multiply-questions-for-the-industry/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of ideas in the air to help bring wind power mainstream. The fickleness of the wind is a major inhibitor to its broad adoption; ideas for a solution include building massive transcontinental energy grids (after all, the wind is always blowing somewhere) and various schemes to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:21:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xcel's Subsidy Cut: More Bad News for Solar]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F102457-xcel-s-subsidy-cut-more-bad-news-for-solar%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits:  The battered solar sector has received some more alarming news, this time from the Minneapolis-based utility Xcel Energy XEL. According to the Denver Post, the company on Friday cut the credit offered on a typical household photovoltaic system to $6,750 from $11,250.  The Post...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:17:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Smart Is Xcel's 'Smart City' Grid?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Smart Is Xcel's 'Smart City' Grid?Check out this US Carbon Footprint Data & MapCheck out this US Carbon Footprint Data & Map, an interactive United States Carbon Footprint Map, illustrating Greenest States.  This site has all sorts of stats on individual State energy consumptions, demographics and State energy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 02:53:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xcel Postpones Colorado IGCC Project Plans]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5712/is_200711/ai_n23750235]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Colorado's largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, put its plan to submit an application to the state Public Utility Commission PUC to build an integrated gasification combined cycle IGCC plant on hold for at least two years for several reasons, Tom H Colorado's largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, put its plan...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xcel Commits To Clean Coal Plant.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4984/is_200609/ai_n18184182]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Staff       Denver-- Xcel Energy has committed $3.5 million through 2007 toward  development of Colorado's first clean-coal power plant. The money  will fund engineering studies and other project development activities  for the proposed 300-megawatt t    Staff   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[News Briefs: SSgA assets up $200 billion as other firms report gains.(News Briefs)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Street Global Advisors had a record $1.4 trillion in assets  under management as of Dec. 31, up from $1.2 trillion in the previous  quarter, according to parent State Street Corp.'s quarterly  earnings report. The increase was credited to new business and increased  stock prices. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wyoming regulators give approval to proposed utility sale.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200408/ai_n22223233]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jessica Lowell, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Aug. 25--CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- State regulators spent less than three  hours  Tuesday hearing Black Hills Power's case for acquiring Xcel  Energy-Cheyenne  Light and making the decision to allow it.    While...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CEO Learns From Being Near The Fridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km3607/is_200309/ai_n8620399]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[XCEL FCU CEO Jim Wisnieski will spend much of the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the basement, next to the coffee maker and the refrigerator.  It's not that Wisnieski will be seeking shelter: it's been his office since he, like thousands of others, lost...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xcel seeks more waste storage.(News)(Xcel Energy Inc.)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5060/is_200301/ai_n18434217]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Joe Truini      Byline: Joe Truini  ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dioxin and breast milk: the French Island incinerator]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5088/is_200206/ai_n25220861]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LaDuke, Winona   Indian Country Today Lakota Times   06-26-2002   Hearings are underway on the Wisconsin French Island Incinerator. The  public health impact internationally of this incinerator is significant.  The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Environmental  Protection Agency EPA should shut...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[OPINION: Wisconsin Incinerator's Health Impact Unacceptable.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200206/ai_n21634670]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By Winona LaDuke, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    Jun. 24--Hearings are underway on the Wisconsin French Island   Incinerator. The public health impact internationally of this  incinerator is  significant. The Wisconsin Department of Natural  Resources and U.S. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Basement View-And Glad Of It]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km3607/is_200203/ai_n8618289]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[From a cramped space in the basement of XCEL FCU's New Jersey branch, CEO James Wisnieski continues to try to get his credit union back to business as usual six months after the Sept. 11 attacks destroyed the credit unions headquarters on the 39th floor of the North Tower of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CEO Away From Office In World Trade Center At Time Of Disaster; 8 Employees Escape]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km3607/is_200109/ai_n8617646]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[XCEL FCU CEO James Wisnieski is one of the few people who wishes he had been where he normally would have been on any regular Tuesday morning: his credit union's headquarters located on the 39th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.  XCEL FCU CEO James...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2001 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Year of the snake? ; U.S. mold makers struggle with Chinese competition.(industrial molds)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5258/is_200109/ai_n20350095]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Black & Decker Corp.'s work used to account for about 35  percent of the business for mold maker Xcel Mold and Machine Inc. in  North Canton, Ohio.    But three years ago the power tool manufacturer shifted that work  to China, Portugal and Latvia. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2001 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xcel wants $12 million to upgrade incinerator]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3652/is_200104/ai_n8937665]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Xcel Energy has threatened to shut down its French Island wasteto-energy plant, according to sources on the La Crosse County Board.With a May 1 negotiation deadline looming, Xcel has said it will close the plant unless the county pays for $12 million in pollution control equipment necessary to comply with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xcel Associates Announces Investment Opinion on American Internet Technical Center]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Sept_14/ai_55746316]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[HAZLET, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 14, 1999--  STRONG BUY RECOMMENDATION TARGET $5.00  AmeriNet Group.com, Inc. ABUY OTC - BB $1.40 is due to release the audited financial statements for its recently acquired subsidiary, American Internet Technical Center, "American Internet" for the year ended Dec. 31, 1998. (ABUY represented a clean...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xcel Associates Aquires 3% of EMB Corporation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1998_August_27/ai_50267159]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[HAZLET, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 27, 1998--Edward T. Whelan, President of Xcel Associates, Inc., announced today that they have acquired approximately 3% of EMB Corporation (OTCBB:EMBU).Mr. Whelan went on to say they would continue to accumulate EMBU. After attending the Investor Conference in New York this week sponsored by THE AGGRESSIVE SEASONED...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oakley acquires sports optical company; announces new product developments]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_June_6/ai_19479090]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 6, 1997--Oakley Inc. (NYSE:OO) today announced it has acquired One Xcel Inc., a company that designs, markets and distributes the only optically-correct protective face shield for use on sports helmets.  The company also announced the late summer launch of its new Topcoat line of sunglasses...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 1997 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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