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Colorado Wind Power

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Colorado Wind Power

We are continuing to grow our use of wind power in Colorado

We built Colorado's first commercial wind farm in the late 1990s, the 32-megawatt Ponnequin Wind Farm in northern Colorado. Since then, we have grown our use of wind power in Colorado to 1,268 megawatts, with more under way.

By the end of 2012, we plan to have about 2,200 megawatts of wind energy on our system. In 2010, we agreed to purchase wind power from RES Americas' new 252-megawatt Cedar Point Wind Project and BP Wind Energy's 251-megawatt Cedar Creek II Wind Farm. Both should be producing power in 2011.

We also have agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of wind power from NextEra Energy Resources' Limon Wind Energy Center, which will provide some of the lowest-cost wind energy available to our system. To further take advantage of this cost-effective resource, we proposed to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission purchasing an additional 200 megawatts from NextEra Energy Resouces' Limon Wind Energy Center II for our Windsource® program. The Limon projects will be complete in 2012.

XCEL ENERGY - COLORADO WIND POWER
Facility	Location	Capacity	In-service Date
Ponnequin	Weld County (just south of the Wyoming border)	32 MW	1998
Foot Creek III	Wyoming	25 MW	1999
Ridgecrest	Peetz, Colo.	30 MW	2001
Colorado Green	Lamar, Colo.	162 MW	2004
Spring Canyon	Peetz, Colo.	60 MW	2006
Cedar Creek	Grover, Colo.	300 MW	2007
Logan Wind	Peetz, Colo.	201 MW	2007
Peetz Table	Peetz, Colo.	200 MW	2007
Twin Buttes	Lamar, Colo.	75 MW	2007
Northern Colorado Wind	Peetz, Colo.	174 MW	2009
NREL/National Wind Testing Center	Golden, Colo.	9 MW	2010
Cedar Creek II	Weld County, Colo.	251 MW	2011
Cedar Point Wind	Lincoln & Elbert Counties, Colo.	252 MW	2011
Limon Wind	Lincoln & Elbert Counties, Colo.	200 MW	2012
Limon Wind II	Lincoln County, Colo.	200 MW	2012

Colorado Wind Power

Colorado Wind Power

We are continuing to grow our use of wind power in Colorado

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