Minnesota

June 7, 2026

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Separately, Xcel's 750 MW Minnesota deal with Google flips utility economics: Google pays all generation and transmission costs, saving Minnesota ratepayers $1.1B to $1.5B over 15 years.

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States like Virginia, Ohio, and Minnesota already have large-load tariff frameworks.

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In Minnesota, the company signed a 1.9 GW deal with Xcel Energy anchored by 300 MW of Form Energy iron-air batteries (the largest long-duration battery project ever announced), 1.4 GW of wind, and 200 MW of solar, funded through a "clean energy accelerator charge" that isolates Google's costs from ratepayers.