Grand Rapids Generating Station
- Construction started January 1960;
- Construction completed November 1968;
- Cost $117 million;
- Capacity approximately 479 MW;
- Located on Saskatchewan River;
- Four turbine generators (units);
- Transmission lines (all 3-phase):
- Eight intake gates, each measuring 4.9 m by 11 m;
- Four spillway gates, each measuring 12.2 m by 13 m.
Grand Rapids Generating Station, located on the Saskatchewan River about 400 kilometres by air northwest of Winnipeg, has a capacity of approximately 480 MW. It is the first hydroelectric generating station that Manitoba Hydro built in northern Manitoba to produce electricity for the provincial power system after the Winnipeg River had been fully developed.
