Xcel Energy Inc.’s $800 Million Senior Notes Offering

Hunton & Williams LLP advised the underwriters on an SEC-registered offering of $300 million aggregate principal amount of 2.60% Senior Notes, Series due March 15, 2022 and $500 million aggregate principal amount of 3.35% Senior Notes, Series due December 1, 2026.

Xcel Energy Inc. (the “Company”) is a public utility company with four utility subsidiaries: (i) Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation, which provides electric utility service to approximately 1.4 million customers in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota and natural gas utility service to approximately 0.5 million customers in Minnesota and North Dakota; (ii) Northern States Power Company, a Wisconsin corporation, which provides electric utility service to approximately 255,000 customers and natural gas utility service to approximately 111,000 customers in northwestern Wisconsin and the western portion of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; (iii) Public Service Company of Colorado, a Colorado corporation, which provides electric utility service to approximately 1.4 million customers and natural gas utility service to approximately 1.3 million customers in Colorado; and (iv) Southwestern Public Service Company, a New Mexico corporation, which provides electric utility service to approximately 389,000 retail customers in Texas and New Mexico.

The Hunton & Williams LLP team included Pete O’Brien, Christina Kwon and Felicity A. Lewis. Cary Tolley and Anna Page provided tax advice.