{"id":356477,"date":"2026-06-30T23:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356477\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T23:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:34:33","slug":"xcel-energy-receives-113-million-grant-to-upgrade-power-infrastructure-across-south-plains-and-panhandle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356477\/","title":{"rendered":"Xcel Energy receives $113 million grant to upgrade power infrastructure across South Plains and Panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Xcel Energy\u2019s Southwestern Public Service Company, which serves customers across the South Plains and the Panhandle, will receive $113 million in grant funding to protect and upgrade its electric infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The grants will fund projects to repair or replace power poles, increase protections in higher-risk areas of the electric distribution system and improve system monitoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The funding also includes the use of drones to inspect power poles in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Xcel Energy said the investment will help expand system improvements while reducing costs for its<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Xcel Energy\u2019s Southwestern Public Service Company, which serves customers across the South Plains and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[126755,451,8705,319,100014,66,251,168,170,169,223,2649,374,57031,12590],"class_list":["post-356477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-electriciy","tag-energy","tag-grants","tag-kcbd","tag-kcbd-news","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-panhandle","tag-south-plains","tag-xcel","tag-xcel-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}