NB Power (French: Energie NB), formerly known as New Brunswick Power Corporation is a provincially owned Crown Corporation. It has an electricity monopoly in the province of New Brunswick. It is currently comprised of a holding company and 4 sub-companies: Generation, Nuclear, Distribution and Customer Service, Transmission. The company has been subdivided with the future aim of selling off the various components (privatization). NB Power services all the residential and industrial power consumers in the province, with the exception of those in Saint John, New Brunswick who are served by Saint John Energy. NB Power supplies power to the power companies in the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. It also has connections to New England and Quebec. In Commonwealth countries a Crown corporation is a state-controlled company or enterprise (a public corporation). ... Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope was restored) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Bernard Lord (PC) Area 72,908 km² (8th)  - Land 71,450 km²  - Water 1,458 km² (2. ... Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or, especially in India, disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership and/or transferring the management of a service or activity from the government to the private sector. ... Saint John, 2001 population 69,661 (metropolitan population 122,678) is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. ... Motto: Parva Sub Ingenti (The small under the protection of the great) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Charlottetown Largest city Charlottetown Lieutenant Governor J. Léonce Bernard Premier Pat Binns (PC) Area 5,660 km² (13th)  - Land 5,660 km²  - Water 0 km² (0%) Population (2004)  - Population 137,900 (10th... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (One defends and the other conquers) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant Governor Myra A. Freeman Premier John Hamm (PC) Area 55,284 km² (12th)  - Land 53,338 km²  - Water 1,946 km² (3. ... Modern New England, the six northeastern-most states of the United States, indicated by red The New England region of the United States is located in the northeastern corner of the country. ... This article describes the Canadian province. ...

Some of its major power generating stations are:

• Hydroelectric
  • Mactaquac Dam
  • Beechwood Dam

• Fossil Fuels
  • Belledune Generating Station
  • Coleson Cove Generating Station
  • Courtney Bay Generating Station
  • Dalhousie Generating Station
  • Grand Lake Generating Station

• Nuclear
  • Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station

The Mactaquac Dam is a Canadian dam built on the Saint John River by NB Power for generating hydroelectricity. ... Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian electrical generating station located in Point Lepreau, New Brunswick. ...

External links

• NB Power Website (http://www.nbpower.com)
• Saint John Energy (http://www.sjenergy.com)