Ellerbe Becket
 
Energy & Technology
Control Centers
 
 

Xcel Energy World Class Control Center

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

The energy utility's new control center achieved two goals: cut costs and improve customer service. The project consolidated five 24-hour operations centers, creating a highly secure emergency operations center that can control the entire one-million-customer power network within 10 minutes of an outage.

Project Data

Size (sq ft):

  • 14,000 sq ft

Size (sq m):

  • 1,301 sq m

Integrated Teams:

  • Interiors: Ellerbe Becket
  • Engineering: Ellerbe Becket
  • Console Design: Evans Consoles
  • Audio-visual: Paoletti Associates
  • Construction: M.A. Mortenson