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Manitoba Hydro
Type Crown Corporation
Founded Winnipeg, Manitoba (1961)
Headquarters Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Key people Robert B. In the Commonwealth realms a Crown corporation is a State-controlled company or enterprise Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Brennan, President & CEO
Industry Electricity generation Natural gas distribution [1]
Products Electricity, Natural gas
Revenue $2. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" Electricity generation is the process of converting non-electrical Energy to Electricity. Natural gas is a Gaseous Fossil fuel consisting primarily of Methane but including significant quantities of Ethane, Propane, In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need Natural gas is a Gaseous Fossil fuel consisting primarily of Methane but including significant quantities of Ethane, Propane, In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services 017 billion CAD (FY 2005)
Net income ▲ $136 million CAD (FY 2005)
Employees 5300 (FY2003)
Website www.hydro.mb.ca

Founded in 1961, Manitoba Hydro is the electric power and natural gas utility in the province of Manitoba. A fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is a period used for calculating annual ("yearly" Financial statements in Businesses Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Net income is equal to the Income that a firm has after subtracting costs and Expenses from the total Revenue. A fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is a period used for calculating annual ("yearly" Financial statements in Businesses Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A public utility (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the Infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using Manitoba (English ˌmænɨˈtoʊbə French /manitoba/ is a province of Canada, spanning 647797 square kilometres (250116  sq mi of North America It is a provincial Crown Corporation, governed by the Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board and the Manitoba Hydro Act H190 CCSM. In the Commonwealth realms a Crown corporation is a State-controlled company or enterprise The Manitoba Hydro Act is a piece of government legislation in Manitoba, Canada, governing Manitoba Hydro, a Crown corporation. Today the company operates 15 interconnected generating stations. It has more than 500,000 electric power customers and more than 250,000 natural gas customers. Natural gas is a Gaseous Fossil fuel consisting primarily of Methane but including significant quantities of Ethane, Propane, Since most of the electrical energy is provided by hydroelectric power, the utility has low and stable electricity rates. Hydroelectricity is electricity generated by Hydropower, ie the production of power through use of the gravitational force of falling water Stations in Northern Manitoba are connected by a HVDC system, the Nelson River Bipole, to customers in the south. HVDC or high-voltage Direct current Electric power transmission systems contrast with the more common Alternating current systems as a means The Nelson River Bipole is a historic Electric power transmission system of two high voltage direct current lines in Manitoba, operated by Manitoba

Manitoba Hydro is currently in the process of building a new headquarters in downtown Winnipeg. Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population (See Manitoba Hydro Tower. Manitoba Hydro Tower is an office tower currently under construction in downtown Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada, located at 360 Portage Avenue )

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Abbreviated history

1873-1960: electric power before Manitoba Hydro

The first recorded attempt to extract useful work from a Manitoba river was in 1829 at a flour mill (known as Grant's Mill) located on Sturgeon Creek in what is now Winnipeg. This was not successful and the milling equipment was later operated by a windmill. A windmill is a machine that is powered by the energy of the wind

The first public electric lighting installation in Manitoba was demonstrated at the Davis House hotel on Main Street, Winnipeg, March 12, 1873. Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population Events 538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In 1880, the Manitoba Electric and Gas Light Company was incorporated to provide public lighting and power, and a year later absorbed the Winnipeg Gas Company. Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year In 1893, the Winnipeg Electric Street Railway Company was formed, and initially purchased power from Manitoba Electric and Gas, but by 1898, it had built its own 1000-horsepower (750 kW) generating plant and purchased Manitoba Electric and Gas. Winnipeg Transit is the public transit agency in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada.

The first hydroelectric plant in Manitoba operated near Minnedosa north of Brandon from 1900 to 1924. Minnedosa is a Town in the Canadian province of Manitoba near. Brandon is a City in southwestern Manitoba, Canada. The surrounding area is often referred to as " Westman " A 261-foot (80 m) earth-fill dam was constructed across the Minnedosa River (now known as the Little Saskatchewan River) by private investors. The Little Saskatchewan River is a river in western Manitoba. The plant only operated part of the year, with the load carried in the winter months by steam generators. A fossil fuel power plant burns Fossil fuels such as Coal, Natural gas or Petroleum (oil to produce Electricity. An 11-kV wood-pole transmission line connected the station with the town of Brandon, Manitoba. The remains of the dam are still visible.

By 1906, Winnipeg Electric Street Railway had constructed a hydroelectric plant on the Winnipeg River near Pinawa, and seventy miles (100 km) of 60-kV transmission line. Pinawa is a small Canadian community of about 1500 residents located in southeastern Manitoba, 110 kilometres north-east of Winnipeg. This plant operated year-round until 1951, when it was shut down to allow improved water flow to other Winnipeg River stations. Its remains are still preserved as a Provincial park [2].

Since the investor-owned Winnipeg Electric Street Railway was charging twenty cents per kilowatt-hour, the City of Winnipeg founded its own utility in 1906, and developed a generating station at Pointe du Bois on the Winnipeg River (which still operates). In reaction to this, Winnipeg Electric Street Railway dropped prices to ten cents per kilowatt-hour, but the City-owned utility (Winnipeg Hydro) set a price of 3. 5 cents per kilowatt-hour which held for many decades.

In 1916, the Province established the Manitoba Power Commission with the object of bringing electric power to communities outside of Winnipeg.

Pointe du Bois Generating Station on the Winnipeg River
Pointe du Bois Generating Station on the Winnipeg River

Winnipeg Hydro, Winnipeg Electric Street Railway Company and the Manitoba Hydro Commission all built extensive hydroelectric generating facilities on the Winnipeg River during the period 1916 through 1928. The Great Depression starting in 1929 put an end to rapid growth until after World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The City of Winnipeg utility also built coal-fired steam generators in 1924 on Amy Street. The steam boilers at Amy Street were also used for district heating. During World War Two, electric boilers at Amy Street used surplus hydroelectric power to economize on coal consumption. The City utility also implemented load management on electric water heaters, which allowed them to be turned off during the day and during peak load periods.

A new utility was set up by the Province in 1949, the Manitoba Hydro Electric Board. It acquired the assets of the Winnipeg Electric Street Railway in 1953. The MHEB was tasked with bringing electric power to the rural parts of Manitoba, a task which took until around 1956 to substantially complete.

By 1955 there were three utilities in the province:

Two thermal (coal-fired) stations were built at Brandon and Selkirk starting in 1958. A fossil fuel power plant burns Fossil fuels such as Coal, Natural gas or Petroleum (oil to produce Electricity. These units were intended to operate during low-water years, and burned lignite coal. Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad, is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere

In 1957, the first transmission line between Manitoba and North-West Ontario was installed. In 1960, a 138-kV connection to Saskatchewan Power Corporation was completed, and it was later uprated to 230 kV.

1961 to date: the Manitoba Hydro era

The Manitoba Power Commission and Manitoba Hydro Electric Board merged in 1961 to form Manitoba Hydro. One of the earlier wholesale accounts to be transferred to Manitoba Hydro in 1956 was the village of Emerson, MB (which had been served up to that point by a cross-border tie to the Otter Tail Power system at Noyes, MN). The last of the private mine-owned utility systems at Flin Flon was purchased by Manitoba Hydro in 1973. The early 1970s also marked the installation of tie lines between Manitoba Hydro and utilities in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Minnesota. The interconnection with the American utilities (Otter Tail Power, Northern States Power, and Minkota Power Co-Operative) were used to obtain firm power of 90 MW for the winter of 1970; and since that time these interconnections have also been used for export of energy.

In the period 1974 to 1976, Manitoba Hydro was still studying nuclear power, but it concluded that all hydraulic resources should be developed first before construction of any nuclear facility. Nuclear power is any Nuclear technology designed to extract usable Energy from atomic nuclei via controlled Nuclear reactions Although two research nuclear reactors existed at the Pinawa AECL research facility, no nuclear generating capacity has ever been constructed in Manitoba.

In July 1999, Manitoba Hydro purchased the natural gas distribution company Centra Gas Manitoba. In September 2002, Manitoba Hydro purchased Winnipeg Hydro, which formerly provided electric power in the downtown area of Winnipeg. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Winnipeg Hydro is a former provider of electrical power in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population

Nelson River development

Main article: Nelson River Hydroelectric Project

Between 1955 and 1960, studies were carried out to determine what resources would be available for future hydraulic generation. The Nelson River Hydroelectric Project refers to the construction of a series of Dams and Hydroelectric power plants on the Nelson River in Northern The stations at Kelsey, Kettle, Long Spruce and Limestone were built on the lower Nelson River to support both Manitoba load growth and export plans. Limestone, the largest generating station in Manitoba, is located on the Lower Nelson only 90 km from Hudson Bay. Long-term firm power sales contracts were signed with Northern States Power of Minneapolis. Xcel Energy Inc ( is a Public utility company based in Minneapolis Minnesota, serving customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota Control dams have turned Lake Winnipeg, the 12th largest lake in the world, into a 25,000 km² reservoir for the Nelson River generation system. Lake Winnipeg is a very large ( Lake in central North America, in the province of Manitoba, Canada, about north of the city

The great distance between generating sites on the Nelson River and load centers in southern Manitoba required the use of HVDC transmission lines to bring the energy to market. HVDC or high-voltage Direct current Electric power transmission systems contrast with the more common Alternating current systems as a means When these lines were commissioned they were the longest and highest-voltage direct current lines in the world. The Dorsey converter station is 26 km north-west of the center of Winnipeg.

Wind development

Starting in 2005, a wind farm was built near St. Wind Power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form such as electricity using Wind turbines At the end of 2007 worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was Leon, Manitoba. Power generated by this privately constructed plant is purchased by Manitoba Hydro for distribution on its network. The capacity of this installation is 99. 9 MW, comprising 63 wind turbines of 1. A wind turbine is a rotating machine which converts the Kinetic energy in Wind into Mechanical energy. 65 MW each. This is the first privately owned grid-connected generation to be constructed in Manitoba in nearly fifty years. Energy produced by this facility will is subsidized by the Canadian Government's Wind Power Production Incentive, though over the life of the project tax revenue will exceed the value of the initial subsidy. The Canadian Government, formally Her Majesty's Government in Canada, is the Federal government of Canada. Wind Power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form such as electricity using Wind turbines At the end of 2007 worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was

Multiple wind farm sites with capacities between 50 and 200 MW have been studied for Manitoba. The Manitoba OASIS node has generator interconnection evaluation studies for wind farms at Elie, Lena, Darlingford, Boissevain, Killarney, and Minnedosa. The Open Access Same-Time Information System (OASIS, is an Internet -based system for obtaining services related to Electric power transmission in North America Additional probable wind farm sites of up to 200 MW are in the generation queue on the OASIS for St. Leon, St. Laurent, Letellier, Waskada,Alexander, Lizard Lake, Lk. Manitoba Narrows and other locations. [3]

Schneider Power Inc. , a private wind power developer, is planning 3 wind power projects for Manitoba with probable inservice dates of 2009 and 2010. [4]

Generating stations

Station Started Location Units Power
per unit
(MW)		 Total power (MW) Average
annual
generation
(TW·h)		 Remarks
Pointe du Bois 1911 Winnipeg R. 16 various 78 0. The Winnipeg River is a Canadian River which flows from Lake of the Woods in the province of Ontario to Lake Winnipeg in the province 6 Ex–Winnipeg Hydro, 8. 4 MW Straflo installed 1999, 14 m head
Great Falls 1922 Winnipeg R. 6 various 131 0. 75 Ex–Winnipeg Electric Railway Co. , 17. 7 m head, 883 m³/s each unit
Seven Sisters 1931 Winnipeg R. 6 25 165 0. 99 18. 6 m head, 1,146 m³/s [5]
Slave Falls 1931 Winnipeg R. 8 8 67 0. 52 Ex–Winnipeg Hydro
Laurie River 1 1952 Laurie R. 1 5 5 0. 03 Ex–Sherrit Gordon, 16. 8 m head
Pine Falls 1952 Winnipeg R. 6 14 82 0. 62 11. 3 m head, 917 m³/s
McArthur Falls 1954 Winnipeg R. 8 7 56 0. 38 7 m head, 966 m³/s
Kelsey 1957 Nelson R. 7 30 211 1. The Nelson River is a River of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. 8 Ex-INCO, 17. 1 m head, station 1,713 m³/s [6]
Laurie River 2 1958 Laurie R. 2 2. 5 5 0. 03 As for LR 1
Brandon (steam) 1958 Brandon 1 105 105 0. Brandon is a City in southwestern Manitoba, Canada. The surrounding area is often referred to as " Westman " 6* Unit 5, sub-bituminous coal
Selkirk (steam) 1958 Selkirk 2 60 121 0. Selkirk is a city in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, located about 22 km northeast of the provincial capital Winnipeg on the Red River 3 Natural gas since 2002
Grand Rapids 1965 Saskatchewan R. 4 120 472 1. Natural gas is a Gaseous Fossil fuel consisting primarily of Methane but including significant quantities of Ethane, Propane, The Saskatchewan River ( Cree: kisiskāciwani-sīpiy, "swift flowing river" is a major river in Canada, approximately 550 km (340 mi long 54 First station built under Manitoba Hydro name, frequency control for Manitoba, 36. 6 m head, 1500 m³/s per unit [7]
Kettle 1970 Nelson R. 12 103 1,228 7. 1 30 m head, 370 m³/s each unit [8]
Long Spruce 1977 Nelson R. 10 100 1,010 5. 8 26 m head, 4,580 m³/s [9]
Jenpeg 1979 Nelson R. 6 16 97 0. 9 USSR Bulb Turbines [10]
Limestone 1990 Nelson R. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 10 135 1,340 7. 7 5,100 m³/s total [11]
Brandon (combustion turbine) 2002 Brandon 2 130 260 0. 05* Units 6 & 7, natural gas/diesel backup simple cycle
Diesel Plants - Brochet, Lac Brochet,
Tadoule Lake, Shamattawa		 12 various 4 0. Brochet is an unincorporated community located in Northern Manitoba near the Saskatchewan border ( Lac Brochet is a Lake in north-west Manitoba. There is an associated town by the same name Tadoule Lake Manitoba is an isolated northern community in Manitoba reachable by plane Snowmobile, and dog team sleds Shamattawa Manitoba is a First Nations community in northern Manitoba, Canada 01 Diesel fuel, not on grid

* Typical peaking only

Generating station total ratings are approximate. Diesel or Diesel fuel (ˈdiːzəl in general is any Fuel used in Diesel engines The most common is a specific fractional distillate of petroleum Water flow conditions and station service load may account for some of the difference between rated station output and total unit nameplate rating. In a typical year the hydroelectric plants produce more than ninety-five percent of the energy sold.

Seven Sisters GS from the downstream side
Seven Sisters GS from the downstream side

Transmission

AC system

Manitoba Hydro operates an extensive network of more than 9000 km of ac transmission lines. Transmission voltages in use include:

Distribution voltages include 4160 V especially in urban Winnipeg, 12. 47 kV and 25 kV, usually on overhead conductors but often in buried cables. Total length of distribution lines is over 80,000 km.

Transmission lines built in Manitoba must withstand a wide temperature range, ice, and occasional high winds. In 1997, a tornado blew down 19 transmission towers of the HVDC system north of Winnipeg, reducing transmission capacity from the North to a small fraction of system capacity. A tornado is a violent rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a Cumulonimbus cloud or in rare cases the base of a Cumulus During the several days required for utility employees to repair this line, power was imported from the United States over the 500 kV interconnection. As a consequence, though some major industrial customers were requested to curtail energy use, disruption for most customers remained small.

DC system

A large portion of the energy generated on the Nelson river is transmitted south on the HVDC Nelson River Bipole system. The Nelson River Bipole is a historic Electric power transmission system of two high voltage direct current lines in Manitoba, operated by Manitoba The two transmission lines, each nearly 900 km long, operate at +/- 450 kV and +/- 500 kV DC, with converter stations at Gillam and Sundance, and the receiving terminal near Rosser. For the indian settlement see Gillam Manitoba (Indian settlement Gillam Manitoba, Canada, is a community between Thompson Sundance Manitoba was a community near the Nelson River in Northern Manitoba that was constructed in the mid- 1980s to house the workers of the Limestone Rosser Manitoba is a Rural municipality lying adjacent to the northwest side of Winnipeg at. The combined capacity of the two HVDC lines is 3420 MW, or about 68% of the total generation capacity in the province.

Exports

Manitoba Hydro has transmission lines connecting with Saskatchewan, Ontario, North Dakota and Minnesota. Saskatchewan (səˈskætʃəwən) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588276 Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec North Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers Ties to the Canadian provinces are of low capacity but a substantial portion of Manitoba Hydro's annual generation can be exported over the tie to Minnesota. In 2003, a new line was completed to the United States (the Harvey-Glenboro 230kV line), allowing a firm import capacity of 700 megawatts. In 2005 Manitoba Hydro announced increased interchange up to 500 MW with Ontario, after construction of additional transmission facilities.

Manitoba Hydro also participates in "border accommodation" transfers, where it provides power to isolated extra-provincial end-use loads such as those of the Northwest Angle in Minnesota. The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals and coterminous with Angle Township, is a part of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

Manitoba Hydro is a member of the MRO (Midwest Reliability Organization), a region of the North American Electrical Reliability Council NERC and successor to MAPP (Mid-continent Area Power Pool) since June 15, 2004. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Manitoba Hydro continues its membership in MAPP, which retains its function as a generation reserves sharing pool.

Export of electrical energy has been regulated since 1907 in Canada. Since 1959, the National Energy Board licences exports, based on the criteria that the exports are surplus to domestic need and that the price charged is reasonable and in the Canadian public interest. Similarly, exporters of power from the United States into Canada require a United States Export Authorization.

Natural gas customers

Manitoba Hydro has about 239,000 residential, 16,000 commercial and 400 large industrial customers. In fiscal 2003 total gas revenues were $497 million CAD on 2,123 million cubic metres of gas. Residential consumers account for about 42% of Manitoba gas consumption.

Recent and current projects

Manitoba Hydro has a capital spending program intended to maintain and extend capacity for Manitoba customers, for environmental protection, and to allow export of energy surplus to Manitoba needs to stabilize rates. Some of these projects include:

More than 5000 MW of hydroelectric potential could be developed in Manitoba, which includes 1380 MW at the Conawapa site, 630 MW at the Gull (Keeyask) site, and 1000 MW at the Gillam Island site, all on the lower Nelson river. Other sites have been assessed but are not currently under study for development. All of these developments would require a large increase in electric power exports, since Manitoba load growth will not require this capacity for a generation or more. All of these projects require additional HVDC transmission capacity from the North to the South. HVDC or high-voltage Direct current Electric power transmission systems contrast with the more common Alternating current systems as a means One such project, Bipole III, has been discussed with communities on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, but this area is ecologically and culturally sensitive and power line construction will require extensive environmental impact assessment. Lake Winnipeg is a very large ( Lake in central North America, in the province of Manitoba, Canada, about north of the city

Controversies and issues

Like any other large-scale activity, the operations of Manitoba Hydro have not been without controversy.

Comparison of Manitoba Hydro to other utilities

Manitoba Hydro is unusual in North America because it is the sole commercial provider of electrical power in the province of Manitoba. It is a Crown corporation closely regulated by the Provincial government. This status arose because of the history of electrification in the Province, where early private commercial developers required a large initial return on investment owing to the high risks of the projects. This limited the economic benefits that electrification would bring. Manitoba Hydro is required by its regulating legislation to give priority to public benefit over profit.

Another unusual feature of Manitoba Hydro is that it is a completely integrated electrical utility, with generation, transmission, and distribution operations. This means that Manitoba Hydro can consider the total system cost and benefits of any new development, rather than, for example, building generation capacity that relies on a second party for transmission. An example of this approach was seen at the Clean Environment Commission public hearings for the recent Wuskwatim Generation Project and the Wuskwatim Transmission Project, in which environmental reviews for both the generating station and associated transmission facilities were carried out at the same time.

Manitoba Hydro's mandate to serve dictates that it builds enough transmission and generating firm capacity to serve the Manitoba home market first. However, in a typical year, more energy is available than the firm capacity. This can be economically exported from the Province. Since this energy is typically sold on short-term contracts or even on a spot market, the returns on these sales increase Manitoba Hydro's retained earnings, allowing domestic rates to be stable and low. The spot market or cash market is a Commodities or Securities market in which goods are sold for Cash and delivered immediately

Since Manitoba Hydro is a Crown Corporation paying no dividends and not obligated to provide a return on investment to shareholders, energy costs to industrial and residential consumers are lower than they would otherwise be. In the Commonwealth realms a Crown corporation is a State-controlled company or enterprise These lower costs help offset some of the higher costs of doing business in a region far from large markets.

As a Provincial Crown Corporation, investment decisions by Manitoba Hydro are heavily influenced by political and economic goals of the provincial government. For example, in the 1986 Manitoba provincial election, the incumbent New Democratic Party government announced accelerated construction of the Limestone project, with promises of increased employment as a result. The New Democratic Party of Manitoba is a social democratic political party in Manitoba, Canada. Limestone GS was estimated to create 6000 person-years of direct employment, 11,000 of indirect employment over the construction period of eight years. As part of the contract for the ten turbine-generator units, Canadian General Electric agreed to invest $10,000,000 CAD in Manitoba business operations, and to obtain at least 15 per cent of installation labour locally.

The company today

The Manitoba Hydro Building under construction, March 2007.
The Manitoba Hydro Building under construction, March 2007.
June 2007
June 2007
January 2008
January 2008

Today Manitoba Hydro serves a peak Manitoba electrical load of more than 4200 megawatts. Electrical supply to Manitoba customers was 22. 4 terawatt-hours in fiscal 2004, with total revenues of $2. 02 billion CAD. Export sales returned to the typical levels seen in 2001, due to easing of the 2003-2004 drought conditions and low water flows. A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply The company also delivered 2. 1 billion cubic metres of natural gas in 2004, which contributed $509 million CAD to revenues.

Manitoba Hydro had 5300 employees at the end of 2003. Capital assets were valued at nearly $10 billion CAD.

In fiscal 2003 (ending March 31, 2004), the total generation was 19. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " 3 terawatt-hours. Due to low water levels, about 7 TW·h were imported to meet a Manitoba domestic consumption of 21. 9 TW·h. In 2001 generation was nearly 32. 7 terawatt-hours, allowing net export of 12 TW·h to customers in the United States, Ontario and Saskatchewan. Water levels for FY2004 are expected to be more typical, allowing Manitoba Hydro to resume its usual position as a net exporter of electrical energy. A terawatt-hour is the average annual consumption of 70,000 Manitoba residences,14,100 kW·h per year each. In fiscal 2004 ending March 31, 2005 total generation was 31. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 5 terawatt-hours, with imports greatly reduced to only 1. 3 TW·h.

On the evening of January 17, 2005 Manitoba Hydro set a new record for demand of 4,146 MW, with a total interconnected generating capacity of approximately 5000 MW. Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This peak load has increased 4. 7 per cent over the previous year and about 15. 5% over 1996.

A subsidiary company, Manitoba Hydro International, provides electric power consulting services. Manitoba Hydro also operates a high-voltage DC laboratory. Meridium Power, a subsidiary company, markets a line of written-pole AC electric motors suitable for heavy loads on single-phase systems and for power quality improvement. An electric motor uses Electrical energy to produce Mechanical energy. W. I. R. E. Services supplies services to transmission line operators for re-rating and verification of transmission line capacity.

As of January 2007, the company is building a new headquarters on Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg. Manitoba Hydro Tower is an office tower currently under construction in downtown Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada, located at 360 Portage Avenue Route 85 is a city route in the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population When complete, it will be the 4th tallest building in the city at 112. 5 meters to the top of solar chimney with a total of 22 stories and 690,000 square feet (64,100 square metres) floor space. The building is intended to be one of the most energy-efficient building of its size in North America, and to consume 60% less energy than the national building code requirements. [2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Bill Redekop, Point du Bois Feeling its Age,Winnipeg Free Press, August 4, 2007
  2. ^ http://canada.archiseek.com/news/2005/000213.html Canadian Architecture News, retrieved April 17,2008

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