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Brian Martucci

Reporter · US

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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 10, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Brian Martucci

    Xcel’s faulty billing has residents, businesses and cities fired up (opens the original)

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    Xcel Energy’s billing practices are causing financial and logistical headaches for Minnesota residents, businesses and even municipalities, according to complaints filed with the state utility regulator this year. A municipal facility in Roseville and a private printing business in St. Paul were owed months of bill credits for onsite solar production. More than $6,500 in late fees were incurred by the city of St. Louis Park due, it says, to billing errors. Residential electric invoices cancel

  2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Brian Martucci

    Big Tech wants to build a data center in your city. Worth it? (opens the original)

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    Community opposition to data centers is rising fast, but big computing facilities still have at least one influential fan. “If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state and I had a chance to get a big … AI plant or data center, I would absolutely want it because the jobs are enormous and the money paid, the taxes paid, are just enormous,” President Donald Trump told reporters last month. He returned to the subject again recently, in harsher form. “The only reason that commun

  3. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Brian Martucci

    Consumer advocates urge state board to reconsider Xcel’s hefty increase (opens the original)

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    Two utility ratepayer advocates urged state regulators to reconsider a June order allowing Xcel Energy to raise its Minnesota electric customers’ rates by about $210 million over the next two years. The average residential customer would see their bill increase by about $5.60 per month. Attorney General Keith Ellison and the Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota filed separate petitions saying, in effect, that the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission improperly increased Xcel’s authorized ret

  4. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · Brian Martucci

    Report: Trump administration stopping four Minnesota wind power developments (opens the original)

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    The Trump administration’s de facto freeze on wind energy puts 1,200 construction jobs, 4,400 “indirect and induced” jobs and more than $168 million in economic impact at risk for Minnesota, according to a new report from a St. Paul-based progressive think tank. The U.S. Department of Defense has stopped completing the mandated — and once-routine — national security review process for proposed wind farms. As a result, Minnesota could lose four wind energy projects that could generate

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