Xcel to shut Tex. Harrington 1 coal unit for work

NEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) - Xcel Energy Inc (XEL.N) plans to shut its 360-megawatt Harrington 1 coal-fired power unit in Texas beginning on June 5-6 for maintenance, the company told Texas regulators in a report on Friday.

The company plans to repair an exterior tube leak and perform other general maintenance activities as necessary, the report said.

The 1,066-MW Harrington power station is located in Amarillo in Potter County in the Texas Panhandle, part of the Southwest Power Pool.

The three units at the station burn low-sulfur coal supplied primarily from Wyoming's Powder River Basin.

One megawatt power about xxx homes in Texas.

Xcel Energy, of Minneapolis, owns and operates more than 17,000 MW of generating capacity, markets energy commodities, and transmits and distributes electricity (3.3 million) and natural gas (1.8 million) to customers in 10 Western and Midwestern states. (Reporting by Joe Silha, editing by John Picinich)