McCormick Hydroelectric Power Station
| McCormick Hydroelectric Power Station | |||
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 11 '35 " N , 68 ° 19' 37" W | ||
| country | Canada | ||
| Waters |
Rivière Manicouagan ( Réservoir Manic 1 ) |
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| Data | |||
| Type | Storage power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Hydropower | ||
| power | 304 MW | ||
| owner |
Hydro Québec (60%) Alcoa (40%) |
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| Project start | 1951 | ||
| Start of operations | 1953 | ||
The McCormick hydropower plant (in French Centrale McCormick ) is a storage power plant in the Canadian province of Québec . It is located in the Côte-Nord region , about three kilometers west of Baie-Comeau and just before the mouth of the Rivière Manicouagan . Together with the neighboring Manic-1 hydropower plant , it uses the Manic 1 reservoir as a reservoir. The power plant has eight Francis turbines , the installed capacity is 304 MW at a drop height of 37.8 meters.
history
The power station is named after Robert R. McCormick (1880–1955), the owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper . In 1936 he had a paper mill built, which started operations two years later. He gave the impetus to found the city of Baie-Comeau in the largely untouched area. In order to be able to supply the paper mill and other industrial companies with enough energy, he agreed a partnership with the aluminum group Alcoa . In 1951, construction began on the hydroelectric power station, which went into operation on July 18, 1953.
McCormick's 60% stake in the Manicouagan Power Company was later transferred to the AbitibiBowater paper company , while Alcoa holds its 40% stake to this day. The first capacity expansion took place in the 1950s, made possible by the construction of a regulatory structure on the Rivière Toulnustouc by Hydro-Québec in 1959. Since the McCormick power plant produced exclusively for its owners and not for general needs, it was due to the nationalization of the Quebecers Electricity industry excluded in 1963.
After AbitibiBowater bankruptcy protection had to apply, to avert bankruptcy, the 60-percent stake in the power plant McCormick in December 2009 for 615 million was CAD to Hydro-Québec sold.
Individual evidence
- ^ Central McCormick. Commission de toponymie du Québec, accessed April 2, 2012 (French).
- ^ Paul Bussières: Aménagement hydroélectriques récents dans la province de Québec. erudit.org, 1957, accessed March 28, 2012 (French).
- ^ André Bolduc, Clarence Hogue, Daniel Larouche: Hydro-Québec: l'héritage d'un siècle d'électricité . Libre Expression, Montreal 1989, ISBN 2-89111-388-8 , pp. 170 .
- ^ Claude Turcotte: AbitibiBowater annonce un plan de recapitalization - La forestière vend à Hydro-Québec la centrale Manicouagan. Le Devoir, March 14, 2009, accessed April 2, 2012 (French).