EVP, Chief Financial Officer · Xcel Energy Inc. (XEL)

Brian Van Abel

A named executive officer of Xcel Energy in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$4,493,810

FY2024: $4,557,821

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 7, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Brian Van Abel compensation by year

Xcel Energy Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Xcel Energy reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2024FY2025
Salary$700,000$800,000$840,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,740,011$3,050,051$2,402,223
Option awards$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$741,384$431,800$1,026,446
Pension and deferred compensation$0$226,667$172,422
All other$28,781$49,303$52,719
Total$3,210,176$4,557,821$4,493,810

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Xcel Energy Inc. DEF 14A filed April 7, 2026, accession 0000072903-26-000063, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$3.2M
$4.6M
$4.5M
FY22
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU23,908$1,614,248—
PSU23,670$1,598,178—
RSU21,881$1,477,412—
PSU19,724$1,331,791—
RSU14,587$984,941—
RSU7,890$532,702—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Xcel Energy Inc.'s FY2024 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Xcel Energy discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Voluntary resignation$0$0$0$514,801
Change in control and involuntary termination$4,662,000$6,446,240$157,521—
Involuntary for cause$0$0$0$514,801
Involuntary termination without cause$2,331,000$0$93,761—
Death$0$6,446,240$0$6,961,041

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Xcel Energy Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Xcel Energy’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Bob FrenzelChairman, President and CEO$15,998,859
Brian Van Abel · this pageEVP, Chief Financial Officer$4,493,810
Amanda RomeEVP, Group President, Utilities and Chief Customer Officer$3,798,977
Tim O'ConnorFormer EVP, Chief Operations Officer$3,165,265
Michael LambEVP, Chief Delivery Officer$2,637,659
Ryan LongEVP, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer$2,562,733

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Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Xcel Energy's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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