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One of the generating units at Pointe Du Bois, the first generating station built by CIty Hydro (Winnipeg Hydro). Winnipeg Hydro is a former provider of electrical power for the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Winnipeg Hydro was established in 1906 as City Hydro. It was purchased by Manitoba Hydro in 2002. [1]
Locomotive No. 3 is a 4-4-0 built in 1882 by Dübs and Company in Glasgow, Scotland, for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and later for the City of Winnipeg Hydro. From 2001 to 2009, it underwent a complete frame-off overhaul, including the manufacture of a new boiler. No. 3 is the oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada.
Pointe du Bois is a small community located northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba, in an unincorporated section of Census Division No. 1. Pointe du Bois has a Manitoba Hydro generating station (at 50°18′13″N 95°32′24″W / 50.30361°N 95.54000°W / 50.30361; -95.54000
0.6 Ex–Winnipeg Hydro, 8.4 MW Straflo installed 1999, 14 m head, replacement planned Great Falls: 1922 Winnipeg R. 6 various 131 0.75 Ex–Winnipeg Electric Railway Co., 17.7 m head, 883 m 3 /s each unit Seven Sisters 1931 Winnipeg R. 6 25 165 0.99 18.6 m head, 1,146 m 3 /s [12] Slave Falls 1931 Winnipeg R. 8 8 67 0.52 Ex–Winnipeg Hydro
Its 5 power stations produced 27.4 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2014-2015, meeting 75.7% of the provincial demand. Manitoba Hydro , the government-owned public utility is the main power generator in the province with 15 hydroelectric generating stations, 2 fossil-fuel plants and 4 diesel generators , for a total installed capacity of 5,701 MW.
The Nelson Electric Light Company was the first company to build a hydro site in British Columbia. February 1, 1896 it commenced operation producing power for the City of Nelson. The Sandon plant was second in March 1897. [9] In Winnipeg, railroad tycoon William Mackenzie built the first plant built on the Winnipeg River to supply the Ogilvie ...
Five years before the MHB was designed the typical office space in Canada utilized used 550 kWh/m 2 per year. [19] Because of recent work to reduce energy consumption in Winnipeg, a typical office highrise in the city uses approximately 325 kWh/m 2 annually. [19] Current annual Canadian energy targets for Class A office towers are 260kWh/m 2. [19]
This is a list of operational hydroelectric power stations in Canada with a current nameplate capacity of at least 100 MW. The Sir Adam Beck I Hydroelectric Generating Station in Ontario was the first hydroelectric power station in Canada to have a capacity of at least 100 MW upon completion in 1922.