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 # A Clean Energy Revolution Is Rising in the Midwest, With Utilities in the Vanguard

 

##### By Dan Gearino

 

 

 Jan 4, 2019 1:15 PM ET

  Campaign:  [Consumers Energy | Energy for the Future](/node/82051)  ![](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/ConsumersWind.jpg "Credit: Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty Images") Credit: Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty Images 

 

[Originally published by Inside Climate News](https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02012019/renewable-energy-tipping-point-midwest-2018-year-review-utilities-wind-solar-xcel-100-percent)

Even with all the evidence that renewable energy has become less expensive than fossil fuels, it doesn't seem real until utilities start to stake their futures on it.

For some Midwestern utilities, 2018 is the year that happened.

Xcel Energy of Minnesota in early December said it would go to [zero carbon emissions](http://investors.xcelenergy.com/file/Index?KeyFile=395990778) throughout its eight-state territory by 2050, the first major utility to do so.

That followed some big steps by Consumers Energy in Michigan and NIPSCO in Indiana, which issued plans to shut down coal-fired power plants sooner than previously planned while also accelerating development of wind and solar power.

[Continue reading the article here](https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02012019/renewable-energy-tipping-point-midwest-2018-year-review-utilities-wind-solar-xcel-100-percent).

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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