At Xcel Energy, we provide critical energy services to communities in eight Midwestern and Western states. Natural gas and electricity are fundamental to our customers’ lives and livelihood. The demand for electricity continues to grow, and it is important to meet our customers’ needs in sustainable ways. To accomplish this, we use the Triple Bottom Line approach as our guideline: acting with purpose and vision in the areas of environmental leadership, social responsibility and economic performance.

Environmental leadership is an increasingly important issue for our customers, stakeholders and communities, and we reflect our commitment to the environment in our actions. Last fall we introduced groundbreaking new resource plans in Minnesota and Colorado that make significant emissions reductions and place us on the path to meet or exceed aggressive conservation, renewable energy and emissions-reduction targets that have been introduced in these states.

We were named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the second year in a row, and in April 2008, we were ranked the No. 1 wind energy provider for the third consecutive year. We doubled our wind capacity last year and are significantly ahead of other utilities with wind capacity— we have more than twice as much wind energy on our system as the next highest utility. Read more

Sincerely,

Richard C. Kelly
Chairman, President and CEO

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