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New Brunswick Power Corporation [4] (French: Société d’énergie du Nouveau-Brunswick), operating as NB Power (French: Énergie NB), is the primary electric utility in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
NB Power, the government-owned, integrated public utility is the main power generator in the province. There is a total of 4,388 MW of generation capacity listed here, with 47% of that capacity in the Saint John region in four stations.
Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power station located 2 km northeast of Point Lepreau, New Brunswick, Canada.The facility was constructed between 1975 and 1983 by NB Power, the provincially owned public utility.
The proposed sale of NB Power was an attempted takeover of New Brunswick's Crown corporation public utility assets by Hydro-Québec, Canada's largest utility. Announced on October 29, 2009, by premiers Shawn Graham of New Brunswick and Jean Charest of Quebec, the deal ultimately collapsed in March 2010 after months of controversy.
It is a thermal generating station owned and operated by provincial Crown corporation NB Power. Construction of the plant began in 1991 and it began generating electricity in 1993. [ 1 ] At 450 MW, it is designed to burn coal which is delivered by ship through the Port of Belledune and occasionally by rail or truck.
In late 2001, NB Power announced its intention to refurbish Coleson Cove and convert its fuel source to orimulsion, which was sole-sourced from Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) in a $2 billion 20-year supply agreement. The $2.2 billion refurbishment project involved reconfiguring the boilers, as well as on-land storage tanks, Lorneville ...
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Mactaquac Dam with the spillways open, April 2017. The Mactaquac Dam is an embankment dam used to generate hydroelectricity in Mactaquac, New Brunswick.It dams the waters of the Saint John River and is operated by NB Power with a capacity to generate 670 megawatts of electricity from 6 turbines; this represents 20 percent of New Brunswick's power demand.