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Xcel Energy Inc., et al. – ‘8-K’ for 10/3/22 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Wednesday, 10/5/22, at 5:30pm ET   ·   For:  10/3/22   ·   Accession #:  72903-22-57   ·   File #s:  1-03034, 1-31387

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

10/05/22  Xcel Energy Inc.                  8-K:8      10/03/22   11:264K
          Northern States Power Co.

Current Report   —   Form 8-K

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     89K 
 6: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     50K 
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 8: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      8K 
 3: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- xel-20221003_def                 XML     39K 
 4: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- xel-20221003_lab                      XML     81K 
 5: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- xel-20221003_pre               XML     39K 
 2: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- xel-20221003                          XSD     12K 
10: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               13±    19K 
11: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000072903-22-000057-xbrl      Zip     24K

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