Formerly | Newfoundland Light & Power |
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Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Electricity generation & distribution |
Founded | 1924 |
Headquarters | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
Key people | Gary Murray, President & CEO |
Products | Electricity |
Revenue | $420,000,000 CAN |
Number of employees | 650 (2017) |
Parent | Fortis Inc. |
Website | newfoundlandpower.com |
Newfoundland Power Inc. is an electric utility owned by Fortis Inc. which is the primary retailer of electric power in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The company was formed by the Royal Securities Corporation of Montreal in 1924 as the Newfoundland Light & Power Company.
In the year of its incorporation it purchased the assets of the St. John's Light and Power Company which had been formed originally by Robert Gillespie Reid as the St. John's Street Railway Company in 1896. Those assets included Newfoundland and Labrador's first hydro electric generating station at Petty Harbour, Petty Harbour Hydro Electric Generating Station.
After 1924 Newfoundland Light & Power Company became a subsidiary of the International Power Company, and it remained a subsidiary until 1949, when the parent company sold its shares in it to the general public.
The Newfoundland Light & Power Company supplied the general needs of the St. John's urban area and operated the city's electrical street car system. In 1948 the street railway was disbanded and the company became solely an electric company.
Newfoundland Power operates 23 hydro generating plants, three diesel plants and three gas turbine facilities for a total installed capacity of 139.4 MW. [1]
See also: List of generating stations in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Name | Location | Capacity (MW) | Date | Type | Ref |
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Aguathuna | 48°33′43″N58°46′09″W / 48.561955°N 58.769272°W | 1.2 | 1962–1998 | Diesel Genset | [6] |
Flavin's Lane | 47°34′07″N52°42′29″W / 47.568633°N 52.708150°W | 0.186 | 1885–1892 | Thermal (Coal) | [7] |
Gander | 48°56′56″N54°35′08″W / 48.948866°N 54.585659°W | 2.65 | 1949–1998 | Diesel Genset | [8] |
Port aux Basques | 47°36′34″N59°10′58″W / 47.609554°N 59.182641°W | 3.07 | 1973–2000 | Diesel Genset | [9] |
Port Union | 48°29′53″N53°05′25″W / 48.498151°N 53.090176°W | 0.5 | 1949–1998 | Diesel Genset | [10] |
Salt Pond | 47°05′37″N55°12′10″W / 47.093640°N 55.202766°W | 1.5 | 1963–1998 | Diesel Genset | [11] |
St. John's Diesel | 47°33′50″N52°41′26″W / 47.563886°N 52.690469°W | 2.5 | 1953–2005 | Diesel Genset | [12] |
St. John's Steam | 47°33′50″N52°41′24″W / 47.563909°N 52.690110°W | 9.8 | 1956–2000 | Thermal (Fuel oil) | [13] |
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