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19,904 [3] Website. www .hydroquebec .com. Hydro-Québec is a Canadian Crown corporation public utility headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. It manages the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Quebec, as well as the export of power to portions of the Northeast United States.
City of Lethbridge Electric Utility. ENMAX (formerly City of Calgary Electric System) EPCOR (formerly Edmonton Power Corporation) City of Medicine Hat Electric Utility. Town of Ponoka. City of Red Deer Electric Light and Power. Town of Cardston. Rural Electrification Associations: Battle River Power Cooperative.
History of Hydro-Québec. Hydro-Québec is a government-owned public utility established in 1944 by the Government of Quebec. The company is in charge of the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity across Quebec. Its head office is located in Montreal .
Nationalization of electricity in Quebec includes two series of events that led to the creation of Hydro-Québec in 1944 and the nationalization of private electricity companies in Quebec in two steps. In 1944 the first nationalization allowed the province of Quebec to take control of Montreal Light, Heat and Power which had exercised a ...
The prototypical example is Hydro-Québec, founded in 1944 and now Canada's largest electricity generator and the world's largest producer of hydro-electricity. It is widely seen as a symbol of modern Quebec, helping to create the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s where French-speakers in Quebec rose to positions of influence in the industrial ...
James Bay Project. The James Bay Project ( French: projet de la Baie-James) refers to the construction of a series of hydroelectric power stations on the La Grande River in northwestern Quebec, Canada by state-owned utility Hydro-Québec, and the diversion of neighbouring rivers into the La Grande watershed. It is located between James Bay to ...
NB Power is a vertically-integrated Crown corporation by the government of New Brunswick and is responsible for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. [5] : 3 NB Power serves all the residential and industrial power consumers in New Brunswick, with the exception of those in Saint John, Edmundston and Perth-Andover who ...
The Churchill Falls Generating Station is a hydroelectric underground power station in Labrador. At 5,428 MW, it is the sixteenth largest in the world, and the second-largest in Canada, after the Robert-Bourassa generating station in northwestern Quebec . Rather than a single large dam, the plant's reservoir is contained by 88 dykes, totalling ...