Pointe du Bois Generating Station

Pointe du Bois spillway replacement project

• Construction started – 1909
• Construction completed – 1926
• Cost – $3.25 million
• Capacity – 78 MW
• Average annual generation – 599 million kWh
• Waterfall drop – 14 m
• Powerhouse – Length 135 m
• Number of turbine generators – 15 double horizontal shaft Francis Turbines and one Straflo turbine
• First unit in service – 1911
• Transmission lines — Four – 69 kV lines that run from Pointe du Bois to Rover Avenue.
  — Two – 138 kV lines that run from Pointe du Bois to Slave Falls.

Pointe du Bois Generating Station is located on the Winnipeg River, approximately 160 km northeast of Winnipeg, by road. This is currently the oldest power plant still in operation on the river. The Pointe du Bois Generating Station was built by City Hydro, later known as Winnipeg Hydro, and acquired by Manitoba Hydro in 2002.