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Capital Power (TSX: CPX) 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 3,600 megawatts of power generation capacity at 15 facilities* across North America. An additional 595 megawatts of owned generation (including the Shepard Energy Centre) is under construction or in advanced development.

* Excludes the 5-MW Clover Bar Landfill Gas plant. 

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.

Commercial / Merchant Facilities

Facility Owned Capacity Location or Nearest Community Fuel Source Year Commissioned
Bridgeport Energy  540 MW* Bridgeport, CT Natural gas 1999
Tiverton  279 MW* Tiverton, RI Natural gas 2000
Rumford  270 MW* Rumford, ME Natural gas 2000
* Represents net winter capacity. Tiverton, Rumford and Bridgeport have nominal generation capacities of 265, 265, and 520 megawatts, respectively.
Clover Bar Energy Centre  243 MW

Edmonton, AB

Natural gas

 Unit 1: 2008
Unit 2 & 3: 2009
Halkirk Wind  150 MW Halkirk, AB Wind 2012
Clover Bar Landfill Gas Plant  4.8 MW

Edmonton, AB

Landfill gas

 2005
Genesee 3**  258 MW Warburg, AB

Coal

 2005
** 516-MW facility jointly owned with TransAlta, operated by Capital Power 
Keephills 3***  247.5 MW Wabamun, AB Coal 2011
*** 495-MW facility jointly owned with TransAlta, operated by TransAlta
Joffre Co-generation****  192 MW Red Deer, AB

Natural gas

2000
**** 480-MW facility jointly owned with Capital Power, ATCO Power Canada Ltd. and NOVA Chemicals Corporation 

 

Contracted Facilities

Facility Owned Capacity Location or Nearest Community Fuel Source Year Commissioned
Genesee 1
Genesee 2 		 430 MW
430 MW

Warburg, AB

Coal

 Unit 1: 1994
Unit 2:1989
Island Generation  275 MW Campbell River, BC Natural gas 2002
Kingsbridge 1  40 MW

Goderich, ON

Wind

2006
2001

Quality Wind  142 MW Tumbler Ridge, BC Wind 2012
Roxboro  46 MW* Roxboro, NC Solid fuel 1987
Southport  88 MW* Southport, NC Solid fuel 1987

 * Net capacity 

 

In Construction or Development

Project Owned Capacity Location or Nearest Community Fuel Source Anticipated Commission Date
Capital Power Energy Centre  400 MW - 900 MW* Alberta Natural Gas 2017-2020
* Generation capacity for the CPEC facility is expected to be up to 900 MW, with ability to construct initial capacity at 400 MW.  
Shepard Energy Centre  400 MW* Calgary, AB Natural Gas Q1 2015
* 800-MW natural gas facility jointly owned with ENMAX Corporation
Port Dover & Nanticoke Wind Project  105 MW

Counties of Haldimand & Norfolk, ON

 Wind Q4 2013
K2 Wind Project  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

Facility Location Fuel Source
Sundance Alberta, Canada Coal

 

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 reviewed: April 2, 2013