Public Comment Form

Commenting open: May 06, 2025 06:00AM CT - June 05, 2025 11:59PM CT.

Xcel Energy (Riverside Generating Plant) - Air Permit

We invite you to comment on the draft air quality permit for Xcel Energy's Riverside Generating Plant in Minneapolis.


Xcel Energy operates the Riverside Generating Plant in northeast Minneapolis using two natural gas-fired combustion turbines to generate electricity and an auxiliary boiler.


The draft permit reissues the facility’s air quality permit. The permit authorizes upgrades to the combustion turbines, increasing efficiency, power generation capacity, and emissions. The draft permit adds limits for carbon monoxide emissions from the combustion turbines and requires continued monitoring and recordkeeping for emissions of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds.


An air quality operating permit is required for certain existing facilities or the construction of new facilities that have the potential to emit a significant level of any regulated pollutant. The permit includes all requirements for operation and procedures, applicable rules, emission standards, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting. If additional conditions change and modifications are necessary, the MPCA may review and amend the permit.



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Thank you for providing feedback on this project. We value your comments and will use them to assess this project further.


In your comments, please state your interest in the permit application or the draft permit; the explicit actions you wish the MPCA to take, including specific references to the section of the draft permit you believe should be changed; and the reasons supporting your position, stated with sufficient specificity as to allow the MPCA to investigate the merits of the position.


If you want to submit a letter, you can upload the letter on this website or submit it via US Mail to the following address:


Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
c/o Jesse Loi
520 Lafayette Road
Saint Paul, MN 55155

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