Facilities & Operations

Major electrical and gas facilities. Click for larger image.

About 98 per cent of the electricity Manitoba Hydro produces each year –30 billion kilowatt-hours on average – is clean, renewable power generated at 14 hydroelectric generating stations on the Nelson, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, and Laurie rivers.

The province's remaining electricity needs are fulfilled by:

• 2 thermal generating stations;
• 4 remote diesel generating stations;
• wind power purchases from independent wind farms in Manitoba.

Manitoba Hydro has an extensive infrastructure to support the production and delivery of power in the province. To meet growing customer load and integrate new sources of supply, in 2010-11 we invested:

• $143 million in our transmission system;
• $124 million in substations;
• $155 million in our electricity and natural gas distribution system.