Breaking News:  Xcel Eyeing Merger Partner &  Innogy to Sell Wind	 Biz  BREAKING NEWS  FROM POWER FINANCE & RISK, WHERE YOU READ IT FIRST:    _____   XCEL SEEKS $20B UTILITY MERGER; LOOKS TO BUY BACK NRG  Xcel Energy, one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., is courting FirstEnergy, TXU and Entergy as potential merger partners and at the same time is looking to repurchase the remaining 20% stake of its unregulated IPP affiliate, NRG Energy, which it partially spun off in May 2000.  U.K. UTILITY PUTS WIND BIZ ON THE BLOCK U.K. utility Innogy has put its U.S. wind farm business up for sale and hired J.P. Morgan to find a buyer. The portfolio, which consists of two 20 MW farms in California and a further 600 MW of projects in construction or under development in California, Texas and Pennsylvania, could fetch Innogy some $300 million. Click here to register for a free trial and get INSTANT ACCESS to these stories!   Or go to:   www.iifreetrial.com  and be sure to mention the following code:  T06493   _____   >>Forward this email to your colleagues << We welcome you to forward this email to any co-workers or colleagues who would be interested in this breaking story.       _____   Note:  These records are warranted as fairly obtained under the UK data protection act 1998.   If you would like to be removed from our email database, please hit reply and write remove in the subject header.