0001140361-16-063604.txt : 20160505 0001140361-16-063604.hdr.sgml : 20160505 20160505171309 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001140361-16-063604 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20160503 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160505 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160505 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: XCEL ENERGY INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000072903 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC & OTHER SERVICES COMBINED [4931] IRS NUMBER: 410448030 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 800 NICOLLET MALL CITY: MINNEAPOLIS STATE: MN ZIP: 55402 BUSINESS PHONE: 6123305500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 800 NICOLLET MALL CITY: MINNEAPOLIS STATE: MN ZIP: 55401 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: NORTHERN STATES POWER CO /MN/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Frenzel Robert CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001672519 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-03034 FILM NUMBER: 161624930 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 414 NICOLLET MALL CITY: MINNEAPOLIS STATE: MN ZIP: 55401 4 1 doc1.xml FORM 4 X0306 4 2016-05-03 0 0000072903 XCEL ENERGY INC XEL 0001672519 Frenzel Robert 414 NICOLLET MALL 401-9 MINNEAPOLIS MN 55401 0 1 0 0 EVP, CFO Restricted Stock Units 0 2016-05-03 4 A 0 5925 0 A Common Stock 5925 5925 D Restricted Stock Units 0 2016-05-03 4 A 0 2963 0 A Common Stock 2963 2963 D Security converts to common stock on a one-for-one basis. Award vests on Dec. 31, 2018, and will be settled thereafter in cash or common stock following such determination by the Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee. Award vests on Dec. 31, 2017, and will be settled thereafter in cash or common stock following such determination by the Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee. Tara M. Heine, Attorney in fact for Robert Frenzel 2016-05-05 EX-24.1 2 rfrenzelpoa.htm Unassociated Document

 POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Flavio A. Acosta, Patricia K. Drury, Tara M. Heine, Wendy B. Mahling, and Judy M. Poferl, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
 
 
(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer (as defined in Rule 16a-1 promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission) and/or director of Xcel Energy Inc. (“Xcel”), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, and the respective rules thereunder;
 
 
(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
 
 
(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever, including filing the Uniform Application for Access Codes to File on EDGAR, in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his or her discretion.
 
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is Xcel assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
 
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by Xcel, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 18th day of April, 2016.
 
/s/Robert Frenzel_________