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A Manitoba Crown utility has sold its remaining stockpile of coal from a Brandon generating station — the last in the province to use coal for electricity generation. But who bought the ...
Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun Coal sits outside at the Manitoba Hydro Brandon Generating Station on Friday. The plant was used by the public utility until Aug. 1, 2018, ...
1. Built to last. Located on the shores of the Patapsco River on a 375-acre site 10 miles south of Baltimore, the Brandon Shores Generating Station has two generating units with a net capacity of ...
The Brandon plant is the last large-scale fossil fuel-driven generating station Hydro operates. Four northern Manitoba communities get their power from diesel-fired plants.
The Brandon Generating Station, which runs on natural gas, is Manitoba Hydro's sole major fuel-combustion plant. Several northern First Nations also use diesel generators.
Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) is planning to build new overhead transmission lines and upgrade others across parts of Maryland in response to the retirement of a coal-powered electric ...
There has been no further evidence of zebra mussels in the Assiniboine River since larvae were found late last year, with additional testing returning negative results. The province announced in ...
The Manitoba government does not plan to phase out natural gas from the Brandon Generating Station by 2035 as previously hoped, Premier Wab Kinew said on Wednesday.
In 1959, Northern States Power Co. began construction on what would become the Pathfinder Nuclear Generating Station just south of Interstate 90 between Sioux Falls and Brandon.