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Xcel Energy × Google · Pine Island electric service agreement

Announced since 24 Feb 2026Agent-reviewed

Power & gridData centers

Xcel Energy agreed terms to serve a planned Google data center in Pine Island, Minnesota, with Google funding 1,400 MW of wind, 200 MW of solar and 300 MW of long-duration storage through a Clean Energy Accelerator Charge; the agreement requires Minnesota PUC approval.

Participants & roles

Xcel Energyutility
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Alphabetpartner
Electric service customer; pays all costs of its new service and new grid infrastructure.
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Terms as stated

Proposed 15-year contract (press reports of the PUC filing); pending MPUC approval.

Announced 24 Feb 2026

Figures as stated

generation mwplanned

1,400 MW

As stated by Xcel Energy · 24 Feb 2026

New wind capacity provided for under the Clean Energy Accelerator Charge; recorded separately, not summed.

Xcel Energy source

generation mwplanned

200 MW

As stated by Xcel Energy · 24 Feb 2026

New solar capacity provided for under the Clean Energy Accelerator Charge.

Xcel Energy source

Power · basis unspecifiedplanned

300 MW

As stated by Xcel Energy · 24 Feb 2026

Long-duration storage: a 300 MW (30 GWh) Form Energy iron-air battery installation.

Xcel Energy source

Status history

24 Feb 2026
Announced
Xcel announces the Electric Service Agreement will be filed for review and says the MPUC must formally approve it.
Xcel Energy ↗Agent review

What remains uncertain

Xcel states the MPUC must formally approve the agreement; the city reports the ESA was filed April 15, 2026 (Docket 26-170), and no approval was found in the opened sources. The Minnesota Attorney General's office urged the PUC on Sept. 28, 2026 not to approve it until cost risks are addressed (KTTC).
Press reports of the filing describe a 15-year contract; the filing was not opened, so no term is recorded. Contracted load and minimum-demand terms are not stated in the opened sources.
The generation and storage resources' locations and in-service dates are not stated in the opened Xcel and Google texts.
Google's $50 million contribution to Xcel's Capacity*Connect program is a program contribution, not recorded as capex or contract value.

Related projects

Google Pine Island data center
Announced

Sources

KTTCpress · Published 01 Oct 2026
Page shows Oct. 1, 2026, 10:27 AM CDT.
Source checked 20 Oct 2026
City of Pine Islandcompany page · Published 18 May 2026
City project page (Project Skyway, Energy Usage), last updated 5/18/26; reports Xcel filed the Electric Service Agreement and Interconnection Agreement with the Minnesota PUC on April 15, 2026 (Docket 26-170). · The publisher supplies a calendar date; 00:00 UTC is a storage convention.
Source checked 20 Oct 2026
Xcel Energypress release · Published 24 Feb 2026
The publisher supplies a calendar date; 00:00 UTC is a storage convention.
Source checked 20 Oct 2026
Googlecompany page · Published 24 Feb 2026
The publisher supplies a calendar date; 00:00 UTC is a storage convention.
Source checked 20 Oct 2026

Last confirmed by a dated source: 01 Oct 2026