NB Power
NB Power (French: Énergie NB), formerly known as New Brunswick Power Corporation and New Brunswick Electric Power Commission is an electrical utility in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
NB Power is a Crown Corporation wholly owned by the Government of New Brunswick and is composed of a holding company and 4 sub-companies: NB Power Distribution and Customer Service, NB Power Generation, NB Power Nuclear, and NB Power Transmission.
Following the deregulation model, the company was subdivided in 2004 with the future aim of selling off the various components (privatization). NB Power functions as a regulated monopoly and serves all the residential and industrial power consumers in the province, with the exception of those in Saint John, New Brunswick; Edmundston, New Brunswick and Perth-Andover, New Brunswick who are served by Saint John Energy, City of Edmundston Electric and the Perth-Andover Electric Light Commission respectively.
NB Power supplies electricity to Maritime Electric in Prince Edward Island through a sub-sea interconnection cable on the floor of the Northumberland Strait, and imports/exports from/to Nova Scotia via Canada's first electrical interconnection between two provinces.
NB Power also has interconnections to Maine and Quebec and imports and exports to those regions.
In October 2008, NB Power Holding Corporation was named one of "Canada's Top 100 Employers" by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.[1]. In 2009, NB Power became the first electric utility to be recognized by the National Quality Institute by being awarded a Healthy Workplace Award.
Governance
Current members of the board of directors of NB Power are: Edward Barrett, Norman Betts, Graham Brown, Francis McGuire, Patrice Merrin Best, Bernard Cyr, Eloi Duguay, Leon Furlong, David Hay, Lise Caissie, Normand Caissie, and Jane Fritz.
Generating Stations
NB Power Generation is operating 15 generating stations, with a total generating capacity of 3,324 MW[2] . It generated 15,946 GWh of electricity in 2006/2007.
Thermal
- Coal
- Belledune Generating Station (458 MW)
- Grand Lake Generating Station (57 MW)
- Diesel
- Grand Manan Generating Station (28 MW)
- Millbank Generating Station (399 MW)
- Sainte Rose Generating Station (100 MW)
- Oil
- Coleson Cove Generating Station (978 MW)
- Courtenay Bay Generating Station (109 MW)
- Orimulsion
- Dalhousie Generating Station (300 MW)
Hydroelectric
- Beechwood (113 MW)
- Grand Falls (66 MW)
- Mactaquac (672 MW)
- Milltown (4 MW)
- Nepisiguit Falls (11 MW)
- Sisson (9 MW)
- Tobique (20 MW)
Nuclear
- Point Lepreau (635 MW)[3]
Transmission
NB Power Transmission owns and operates 6,8015 km of transmission lines throughout the province, ranging in voltage from 69 kV to 345 kV. It transmitted 18,734 GWh of energy in 2006/2007 across its transmission lines.
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Notes and References
- ^ "Reasons for Selection, 2009 Canada's Top 100 Employers Competition".
- ^ Not including Point Lepreau, which is currently offline.
- ^ Currently offline for the Point Lepreau Generating Station Refurbishment Project.