The Saint Paul Port Authority is well connected. The utility infrastructure in the Twin Cities, and Minnesota in general, is among the country's best.


Electrical Power

• Xcel Energy, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the nation's fourth largest utility company, serving both electricity and natural gas customers. Xcel operates in 12 states, generating revenues of $15 billion annually.
  
  
• Xcel Energy owns nearly 90,000 miles of electricity transmission and distribution lines, and more than 31,000 miles of natural gas pipelines.
  
  
• Nuclear power supplies 26.3 percent of the electricity generated in Minnesota.
  
  
• In addition to Xcel Energy, 4 other investor-owned electric utilities operate in Minnesota: Alliant Power, Allete, Otter Tail Power and Northwestern Wisconsin Electric.
  
  

• Six investor-owned natural gas utilities operate in Minnesota: Alliant, Reliant Energy, Xcel Energy, Peoples Natural Gas, Northern Minnesota Utilities, Great Plains Natural Gas.
  
  
• Minnegasco is the largest natural gas distribution company in Minnesota with headquarters in Minneapolis. The company operates 11,000 miles of gas-main lines, and 10,000 miles of gas service lines, serving more than 700,000 residential and business customers in more than 240 communities.

• Saint Paul Regional Water Services maintains more than 92,000 water services to serve more than 400,000 customers.
  
  
• Water pumped from Saint Paul Regional Water Services' McCarron pump station enter a distribution system consisting of approximately 1,100 miles of water mains in the City of Saint Paul and the suburban communities served by the utility.
  
  
• Saint Paul Regional Water Services' total, finished water storage capacity is 136.2 million gallons.