---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000072903-25-000017"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XEL"
cik: "0000072903"
company_name: "XCEL ENERGY INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T17:30:03.915273+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Xcel Energy elects Weyerhaeuser CEO Devin Stockfish to board of directors

## Summary
- Elected Devin Stockfish to board effective Jan 23, 2025; board expands from 13 to 14 members.
- Stockfish is President and CEO of Weyerhaeuser Co. (since 2019), a large timber and forest products company.
- Will serve on Finance Committee and Operations, Nuclear, Environmental and Safety Committee.
- Compensation aligns with Xcel Energy's non-employee director plan, prorated from start to 2025 annual meeting.
- Board determined Stockfish is independent per Nasdaq and company standards; no reportable related-party transactions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000072903-25-000017
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XEL
- cik: 0000072903
- company_name: XCEL ENERGY INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72903/000007290325000017/0000072903-25-000017-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72903/000007290325000017/xel-20250120.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072903-25-000017
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072903-25-000017.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072903-25-000017.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Devin Stockfish was elected as Director at XCEL ENERGY INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 20, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Xcel Energy Inc. (“Xcel Energy”) elected Devin Stockfish, 51, to serve on the Board, effective January 23, 2025, for a term expiring at the Xcel Energy 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72903/000007290325000017/0000072903-25-000017-index.htm

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