XCEL ENERGY — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 32 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

493

Filed by

Reported in-house

$37,360,000

Reported by firms

$11,246,000

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ millions 2007 to 2026

Filings

493 filings, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	JAKE PERRY + PARTNERS	$20,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	XCEL ENERGY, INC	$300,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	HOGAN LOVELLS CADWALADER US LLP (FKA HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP)	$30,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	XCEL ENERGY, INC	$370,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	JAKE PERRY + PARTNERS	$20,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	HOGAN LOVELLS CADWALADER US LLP (FKA HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP)	$80,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report 1st Quarter 2026	XCEL ENERGY, INC	$960,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report 1st Quarter 2026	HOGAN LOVELLS CADWALADER US LLP (FKA HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP)	$80,000 reported
1st Quarter - Report 1st Quarter 2026	JAKE PERRY + PARTNERS	$20,000 reported
4th Quarter - Report 4th Quarter 2025	XCEL ENERGY, INC	$380,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

Firm	Reports	Amount
XCEL ENERGY, INC In-house	77	$37,360,000
HOGAN LOVELLS CADWALADER US LLP (FKA HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP)	77	$5,010,000
CAPITOL COUNSEL LLC	27	$1,330,000
JAKE PERRY + PARTNERS	45	$910,000
STUNTZ DAVIS & STAFFIER, P.C.	37	$810,000
POLARIS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC	23	$530,000
THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC	14	$350,000
CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC	14	$260,000
CLARK & WEINSTOCK	7	$260,000
MCAPITOL MANAGEMENT	8	$250,000
ARENTFOX SCHIFF LLP	8	$220,000
LINCOLN POLICY GROUP	2	$160,000
SELLERY ASSOCIATES	9	$156,000
HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP (FORMERLY HUNTON & WILLIAMS LLP)	10	$130,000
THE HARRIS FIRM	6	$130,000
FAEGRE BAKER DANIELS CONSULTING	12	$120,000
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP	5	$120,000
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS	5	$110,000
FLEET STREET GROUP	5	$95,000
FLYNN & ASSOCIATES, INC.	11	$85,000
THE FRANKLIN PARTNERSHIP	3	$60,000
3 CLICK SOLUTIONS, LLC	2	$45,000
ABERNATHY CONSULTANTS, CATHY	2	$40,000
MCGUIREWOODS LLP	4	$35,000
ELMWOOD STRATEGIES	2	$30,000
LIEBMAN & ASSOCIATES, INC.	8	—
GAVEL RESOURCES, LLC	7	—
THE HAMILTON CONSULTING GROUP, LLC	2	—
VALIS & KEELEN, LLC	2	—
EOP GROUP, INC.	1	—
BRACEWELL LLP	1	—
THREE BRIDGES ADVISORS, INC.	1	—

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Issue	Code	Mentions
Energy/Nuclear	ENG	304
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	298
Utilities	UTI	128
Environment/Superfund	ENV	85
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	80
Transportation	TRA	75
Homeland Security	HOM	69
Clean Air and Water (quality)	CAW	37
Telecommunications	TEC	26
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	26
Defense	DEF	23
Natural Resources	NAT	19
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)	WAS	15
Agriculture	AGR	11
Banking	BAN	11

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 2454	111th	44
S. 1462	111th	34
H.R. 6	110th	32
S. 2191	110th	26
H.R. 3221	110th	25
H.R. 1319	117th	24
H.R. 5376	117th	20
H.R. 910	112th	19
S. 1353	113th	18
H.R. 2776	110th	17
H.R. 1	118th	16
S. 2012	114th	16
H.R. 1992	117th	15
S. 799	117th	15
H.R. 2921	115th	15
H.R. 1023	112th	15
S. 1342	112th	15
H.R. 8	114th	14
H.R. 259	113th	14
H.R. 3684	117th	13
H.R. 1686	115th	13
S. 754	114th	13
H.R. 2218	113th	13
H.R. 1380	112th	13
H.R. 4149	111th	13

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.