Essays on Xcel Energy

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.0 Introduction The phrasal word ‘Big Data’ means literally an enormously huge volume of data. In the present information era, terabytes of data are generated and petabytes of data are processed everyday with the outreach of ubiquitous social media, online shopping and many other mobile and internet based applications. The traditional methodologies became inadequate to process, analyze and extract information from these huge data volumes from diverse sources and of new and different data types. So, new ‘Big Data’ methodologies have been developed in dealing with this barrage of data and to help governments, businesses and industries in taking ...

Module 5 – Continuity Plan for Wisconsin Xcel Energy

Introduction Xcel Energy is a United States investor-owned electricity and natural gas company with annual revenue of $10.3 billion. It performs regulated operations to provide energy to customers in eight Midwestern and Western states - Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. Based in Minneapolis, Xcel provides a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to approximately 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers through four utility subsidiaries—Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS), Northern States Power Company-Minnesota (NSPM), and Northern States Power Company-Wisconsin (NSPW). Xcel operates ...