Xcel will use wind, solar energy to power conventions

Both the Democratic and Republican national conventions will be powered by wind and solar energy, utility company Xcel Energy Inc. announced Monday.

The Democratic National Convention will be held in Denver in August, followed by the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in September.

Minneapolis-based Xcel, Colorado's largest utility, ranks as the country's No. 1 provider of wind power, according to the American Wind Energy Association.

Xcel said its Windsource program will provide enough power to offset the estimated 3,000 megawatt-hours that the conventions will use.

The Windsource power will come primarily from Xcel's Ponnequin Wind Facility near the Colorado-Wyoming border and from a wind farm in southwestern Minnesota. A solar installation at the DNC venue, the Pepsi Center, will generate 10 kilowatts.

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