MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Xcel Energy has agreed to pay a nuclear contractor $36 million to settle a lawsuit over work at its Red Wing power plant in Minnesota.

Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy of Charlotte, North Carolina, claimed in its litigation that it was owed $46 million for its work to replace steam generators at the Prairie Island nuclear power plant. It was a project that cost $280 million. Xcel claimed it didn't owe the money.

The Star Tribune reports the companies' regulatory filings say the settlement also covers pending litigation with the project's main contractor, SNC Lavalin Nuclear, which was a defendant in the case.

The lawsuit was filed in Goodhue County District Court last November.

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