Wuskwatim Generation Project

Overview

• Involves the development of a 200-megawatt generating station at Taskinigup Falls on the Burntwood River.
• Involves less than half a square kilometre of flooding.
• Includes an associated access road, construction camp, and other infrastructure.
• Located in the Nelson House Resource Management Area, approximately 45 km southwest of Thompson, 35 km southeast of Nelson House.
• Being developed by an equity partnership between Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) and Manitoba Hydro, the Wuskwatim Power Limited Partnership.
• Unique, as it represents the first time we have entered into an equity partnership with a First Nations community on a generating station project.
• Scheduled for completion in 2011 at a cost of $1.3 billion.

Construction Update 2008–2009	Running time (11:00)
	View a video on Wuskwatim's construction progress from 2008–2009.

Current projections show that Manitoba's domestic demand for new power is not required until 2020. But by advancing the in-service date of Wuskwatim to 2011 means additional export revenues and profits will be possible.

The estimated capital cost for Wuskwatim, including all generation and transmission components, is approximately $1.6 billion.

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