NB Power

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NB Power (French: Énergie NB), formerly known as New Brunswick Power Corporation 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: Generation, Nuclear, Distribution and Customer Service, and Transmission.

The company was subdivided in 2003 with the future aim of selling off the various components (privatization). NB Power functions as a regulated monopoly and services 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 New England and Quebec.

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[edit] Governance

Current members of the board of directors of NB Power are: Lisa Bastarache, Norman Betts, Graham Brown, Derek Burney, Lino Celeste, Bernard Cyr, Eloi Duguay, Leon Furlong, David Hay, Susan Hicks, Shirley Mears, and Jean-Marc Violette.

[edit] Generating Stations

Some of its major generating stations are:

[edit] Hydroelectric

[edit] Thermal

  • Belledune Generating Station
  • Coleson Cove Generating Station
  • Courtenay Bay Generating Station
  • Dalhousie Generating Station
  • Grand Lake Generating Station
  • Millbank Generating Station
  • Sainte Rose Generating Station
  • Grand Manan Generating Station

[edit] Nuclear

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