Black Dog

Sandbagging to protect Black Dog Power Station from Minnesota River flooding

Xcel Energy crews were sandbagging at the Black Dog Power Station in Burnsville as a precaution as the Minnesota River rises.

The last days of coal at Black Dog plant

At 680 feet tall, the concrete smokestack of Xcel Energy's Black Dog power plant towers over the Minnesota River bottomlands.

Xcel to convert its Black Dog coal plant to natural gas

Xcel Energy Inc. notified Minnesota regulators it will shutter the coal units at its Black Dog Generating Station and transition to the use...

PHOTOS: Inside the Black Dog Power Plant

The mayor and other city officials toured Xcel's Black Dog Power Plant, which is in the process of switching from coal to natural gas.