As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 1, 2008

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

XCEL ENERGY INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Xcel Energy 401(k) Savings Plan

 

New Century Energies, Inc. Employees’ Savings and Stock Ownership Plan for

Bargaining Unit Employees and Former Non-Bargaining Unit Employees

 

New Century Energies, Inc. Employee Investment Plan for

Bargaining Unit Employees and Former Non-Bargaining Unit Employees

(Full title of the plan)

 

(Names and address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agents for service)

 

Copy to:

 

MICHAEL C. CONNELLY
Vice President and General Counsel

Xcel Energy Inc.
414 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401
(612) 330-5500

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of Each Class of Securities to Be Registered (1)			Amount to Be Registered(2)		Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share(3)			Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(3)			Amount of Registration Fee
Common stock, par value $2.50 per share			2,642,000 shares(2)		$	20.92		$	55,270,640		$	2,173
Rights to Purchase Common Stock, par value $2.50 per share (4)
(1)	In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plans described herein.
(2)	In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also covers such additional shares of common stock that may become issuable pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions of the employee benefit plans described herein. This registration statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional (i) 1,634,000 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the Xcel Energy 401(k) Savings Plan; (ii) 882,000 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the New Century Energies, Inc. Employees’ Savings and Stock Ownership Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees and Former Non-Bargaining Unit Employees; and (iii) 126,000 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the New Century Energies, Inc. Employee Investment Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees and Former Non-Bargaining Unit Employees.
(3)	Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) based on the average of the high and low sales prices per share of the Registrant’s Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on January 30, 2008.
(4)	One right to purchase Xcel Energy Inc. common stock automatically trades with each share of Xcel Energy Inc. common stock.

 

 

The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 2,642,000 shares of  Common Stock of Xcel Energy Inc. (“Xcel Energy”) to be issued pursuant to  the Xcel Energy 401(k) Savings Plan (the “401(k) Plan”), the New Century Energies, Inc. Employees’ Savings and Stock Ownership Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees and Former Non-Bargaining Unit Employees (the “Employees’ Savings and Stock Ownership Plan”) and the New Century Energies, Inc. Employee Investment Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees and Former Non-Bargaining Unit Employees (the “Employee Investment Plan” and, together with the 401(k) Plan and Employees’ Savings and Stock Ownership Plan, the “Plans”).  In accordance with Section E of the General Instructions to Form S-8, the Registration Statement on Form S-8 previously filed with the Commission relating to the Plans (Registration Statement No. 333-132148) is incorporated by reference herein.

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION REQUIRED BY GENERAL INSTRUCTION E OF FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 8.    Exhibits

 

Exhibit Number		Description
4.01*		Restated Articles of Incorporation of Xcel Energy (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.01 to Xcel Energy’s Form 8-K (File No. 001-03034 filed on August 21, 2000)
4.02*		By-Laws of Xcel Energy (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.01 to Xcel Energy’s Form 10-Q (File No. 001-03034 filed on August 4, 2004)
4.03*		Stockholder Protection Rights Agreement, dated December 13, 2000, between Xcel Energy and The Bank of New York, as successor rights agent (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 1 to Xcel Energy’s Form 8-K (File No. 001-03034 dated January 4, 2001)
5.01		Opinion of Counsel regarding legality of shares
23.01		Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.02		Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.01)
24.01		Power of Attorney

 

The Registrant undertakes that it will submit or has submitted the Plans and any amendments thereto to the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) in a timely manner and has made or will make all changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the Plans under Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code.

 

*  Incorporated herein by reference

 

Item 9.    Undertakings

 

a.             The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

 

(1)                                  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

 

 

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(i)            To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

 

(ii)                                  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement;

 

(iii)                               To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

 

Provided, however, That:

 

(A)          Paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-8 and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement; and

 

(B)           Paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) of this section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form F-3 and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.

 

(2)                                  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of those securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(3)                                  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

 

(5)                                  That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

 

(i)                                     If the registrant is relying on Rule 430B

 

(A)          Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

 

(B)           Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus.  As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a

 

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new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which the prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.  Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date; or

 

(ii)                                  If the registrant is subject to Rule 430C, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness.  Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

 

(6)                                  That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities:

 

The undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

 

(i)                                     Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

(ii)                                  Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

 

(iii)                               The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

 

(iv)                              Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

 

b.                                      The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of those securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

h.                                      Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of

 

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1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for the indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by the director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether the indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota, on the 1^st day of February, 2008.

 

	Xcel Energy Inc.
	By:	/s/ George E. Tyson II
		Vice President and Treasurer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date listed above:

 

Signature		Title
*		President, Chief Executive Officer,
Richard C. Kelly		Chairman of the Board and Director (Principal Executive Officer
*		Vice President, Chief Financial
Benjamin G.S. Fowke III		Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
*		Vice President and Controller
Teresa S. Madden		(Principal Accounting Officer)
*		Director
C. Coney Burgess
*		Director
Fredric W. Corrigan

 

 

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Signature

Title

*

Director

Richard K. Davis

*

Director

Roger R. Hemminghaus

*

Director

A. Barry Hirschfeld

*

Director

Douglas W. Leatherdale

*

Director

Albert F. Moreno

*

Director

Margaret R. Preska

*

Director

A. Patricia Sampson

*

Director

Richard H. Truly

*

Director

David A. Westerlund

 

 

*	By:	/s/ George E. Tyson II
		George E. Tyson II
		Attorney-in Fact

 

 

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The 401(k) Plan

 

The undersigned is a member of the Committee having the responsibility for the administration of the 401(k) Plan.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the 401(k) Plan has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota on February 1, 2008.

 

	XCEL ENERGY 401(K) SAVINGS PLAN
	By:	/s/ Teresa S. Madden
	Name: Teresa S. Madden
	Title:  Pension Trust Administration Committee

 

The Employees’ Savings and Stock Ownership Plan

 

The undersigned is a member of the Committee having the responsibility for the administration of the Employees’ Savings and Stock Ownership Plan.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Employees’ Savings and Stock Ownership Plan has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota on February 1, 2008.

 

	NEW CENTURY ENERGIES, INC. EMPLOYEES’ SAVINGS AND STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN FOR BARGAINING UNIT EMPLOYEES AND FORMER NON-BARGAINING UNIT EMPLOYEES
	By:	/s/ Teresa S. Madden
	Name: Teresa S. Madden
	Title: Pension Trust Administration Committee

 

The Employee Investment Plan

 

The undersigned is a member of the Committee having the responsibility for the administration of the Employee Investment Plan.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Employee Investment Plan has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota on February 1, 2008.

 

	NEW CENTURY ENERGIES, INC.
	EMPLOYEE INVESTMENT PLAN FOR
	BARGAINING UNIT EMPLOYEES AND
	FORMER NON-BARGAINING UNIT EMPLOYEES
	By:	/s/ Teresa S. Madden
	Name: Teresa S. Madden
	Title: Pension Trust Administration Committee

 

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number		Description
4.01*		Restated Articles of Incorporation of Xcel Energy (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.01 to Xcel Energy’s Form 8-K (File No. 001-03034) filed on August 21, 2000)
4.02*		By-Laws of Xcel Energy (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.01 to Xcel Energy’s Form 10-Q (File No. 001-03034) filed on August 4, 2004)
4.03*		Stockholder Protection Rights Agreement, dated December 13, 2000, between Xcel Energy and The Bank of New York, as successor rights agent (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 1 to Xcel Energy’s Form 8-K (File No. 001-03034) dated January 4, 2001)
5.01		Opinion of Counsel regarding legality of shares
23.01		Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.02		Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.01)
24.01		Power of Attorney

 

*  Incorporated herein by reference

 

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