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Capital Power (CPX:TSX) is a growth-oriented North American power producer headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. The company develops, acquires, operates and optimizes power generation from a variety of energy sources.

Capital Power owns more than 3,300 megawatts of power generation capacity at 16 facilities across North America. An additional 487 megawatts of owned wind generation capacity is under construction or in advanced development in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario.


The table below provides a summary overview of Capital Power’s power generation facilities. Click on the facility name to learn more about its operation.

Facility

Owned Capacity

Location or Nearest Community

Type

Year Commissioned

Commercial/Merchant Facilities

 

Bridgeport Energy 520 MW Bridgeport, CT Combined-cycle natural gas 1999
Tiverton 265 MW Tiverton, RI Combined-cycle natural gas 2000
Rumford 265 MW Rumford, ME Combined-cycle natural gas 2000
Clover Bar Energy Centre 

243 MW

Edmonton, AB

Simple cycle natural gas

Unit 1: 2008
Unit 2 & 3: 2009

Clover Bar Landfill Gas Plant

4.8 MW

Edmonton, AB

Landfill gas

2005

Genesee 3*

258 MW

Warburg, AB

Supercritical coal

2005

*516-MW facility jointly owned with TransAlta, operated by Capital Power

Keephills 3** 247.5 MW Wabamun, AB Supercritical coal 2011
**495-MW facility jointly owned with TransAlta, operated by TransAlta
Joffre Co-generation***  192 MW

Red Deer, AB

Combined-cycle natural gas cogeneration

2000

***480-MW facility jointly owned with Capital Power, ATCO Power Canada Ltd. and NOVA Chemicals Corporation
 
Contracted Facilities

Genesee 1
Genesee 2
 

422 MW
430 MW

Warburg, AB

Coal-fired steam turbine

Unit 1: 1994
Unit 2:1989

Island Generation 275 MW Campbell River, BC Combined- cycle natural gas 2002

Kingsbridge 1 

40 MW

Goderich, ON

Wind

2006
2001

Miller Creek  

33 MW

Pemberton, BC

Run-of-river hydroelectric

2003

Brown Lake 

7 MW

Prince Rupert, BC

Hydroelectric

1996

Roxboro 46 MW* Roxboro, NC Cogeneration 1987
Southport 88 MW* Southport, NC Cogeneration 1987
  *Net capacity

In Construction or Development
Owned capacity Location Type

Anticipated Commission Date

Halkirk Wind Project

150 MW Halkirk, ON Wind Q4 2012
Port Dover & Nanticoke Wind Project

105 MW

Counties of Haldimand & Norfolk, ON

 Wind

Q4 2012

Quality Wind Project 142 MW Tumbler Ridge, BC Wind Q4 2012
K2 Wind Ontario

90 MW*

Township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, ON Wind

 2014

*270-MW wind facility jointly owned with Samsung Renewable Energy Inc., Pattern Renewable Holdings Canada ULC, and Capital Power
 
 
Power Purchase Arrangements
Alberta, Canada
Sundance        

Other portfolio activities
Capital Power’s other portfolio activities include natural gas trading in North American markets and electricity trading in the eastern Canada, U.S. Northeast, and U.S. Pacific Northwest markets.

 

 
Last updated: January 31, 2012