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19,904 [3] Website. www.hydroquebec.com. Hydro-Québec is a Canadian Crown corporation public utility headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. It manages the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Quebec, as well as the export of power to portions of the Northeast United States.
735 kV substation near the Robert-Bourassa generating station. Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system (also known as the Quebec interconnection) is an international electric power transmission system centred in Quebec, Canada. The system pioneered the use of very high voltage 735- kilovolt (kV) alternating current (AC) power lines that ...
History of Hydro-Québec. Hydro-Québec is a government-owned public utility established in 1944 by the Government of Quebec. The company is in charge of the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity across Quebec. Its head office is located in Montreal .
Nationalization of electricity in Quebec includes two series of events that led to the creation of Hydro-Québec in 1944 and the nationalization of private electricity companies in Quebec in two steps. In 1944 the first nationalization allowed the province of Quebec to take control of Montreal Light, Heat and Power which had exercised a ...
The Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) is a planned high-voltage direct current (HVDC) underwater and underground power cable project linking the Quebec area to the New York City neighborhood of Astoria, Queens. [1] Following completion of a review by the New York State Public Service Commission, construction began in 2022.
The Robert-Bourassa generating station is the main facility of the James Bay hydroelectric project, a large hydroelectric complex built on the La Grande River, a large river in Quebec's sparsely populated northern Quebec. It was also the first to be built, between 1974 and 1981. It was inaugurated by Premier René Lévesque of Quebec, on ...
Radisson Substation. Coordinates: 53°43′33″N 77°44′17″W. Radisson Substation is a large electrical substation located near Radisson on the Route de la Baie James highway. [1] The switching station, owned by Hydro-Québec, is the largest substation in its power grid, covering an area of a massive 100 football fields. [2]
Jean-Jacques Archambault. Jean-Jacques Archambault (March 21, 1919 – December 23, 2001) was a Quebec engineer. He worked at Hydro-Québec and is known for his work on the 735kV electric transmission technology in the early 1960s.