Xcel Energy has curtailed plans to build a large-scale solar farm spread across thousands of acres in western Wisconsin, cancelling the second phase of the plan, while moving ahead with the first phase and instead adding battery energy storage to the proposed project.

The Ten Mile Creek Solar project calls for 300 megawatts to be generated on solar panels spread across 2,980 acres of leased land in St. Croix County. The project also includes building and routing a new transmission line to the existing grid connections at Xcel’s Allen S. King Power Plant in Oak Park Heights.

The coal-fired King plant is set to be decommissioned in 2028, but Xcel plans to continue to use existing connections at the site.

Originally, Xcel’s Ten Mile Creek Solar proposal included up to 650 megawatts of sola

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