Newfoundland Power Inc. is an

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owned by

Fortis Inc. Fortis Inc. is a St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador-based international diversified electric utility holding company. It operates in Canada, the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean. In 2015, it earned . Fortis was formed in 198 ...

which is the primary retailer of electric power in the

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province of

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. The company was formed by the

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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

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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.

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* 1926 the company increased the generating capacity of the

Petty Harbour Generating Station The Petty Harbour Hydro Electric Generating Station is a hydroelectric generating station in Petty Harbour–Maddox Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was constructed in 1898 and it was the first hydroelectric generating station in Newfoundland ...

* 1931 completed a 3 MW hydro electric generating station at Pierre's Brook * 1931 laid two 13 kW cables across the Bell Island

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in Conception Bay to supply the iron ore mines on Bell Island * 1951 purchased from Bowater's Newfoundland Pulp and Paper Mills and Bay of Islands Light and Power Company the distribution systems in Corner Brook and Deer Lake. * 1956 obtained from the

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the distribution system in Grand Falls,

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, Bishops Falls and

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. * 1958 completed a 12.5 MW hydro electric generating station at Rattling Brook. * 1958 obtained from the

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the distribution system in Gander. * 1962 converted the Grand Falls, Windsor, Bishop's Falls and Botwood distribution systems from 50 cycles (50 Hz voltage signal) to the

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n standard of

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. * 1966 Union Electric Light and Power Company became part of the Newfoundland Light and Power Company. * 1966 the company had eleven generating plants with an installed capacity of 95 MW. * 1970 the company sold over the one billion kW·h (1 TW·h). * 1981 the company had twenty-one hydro stations, three

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s, seven diesel generating plants and one

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for a total installed capacity of 241 MW. * 1987 shareholders of Newfoundland Light & Power Co. form

as a holding company with 100% ownership of the regulated electrical utility. * 1990 Newfoundland Light & Power Co. changes its corporate name to Newfoundland Power. * 1998 the company changed its legal name from Newfoundland Light & Power Co. to Newfoundland Power Inc.

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