Latest Hydro-Québec Stories

BROSSARD, QC, May 11, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Eolectric Inc. and Fiera Axium Infrastructure Inc. are proud to announce the creation of an investment fund, Eolectric Club, L.P. and completion of equity financing of the Vents du Kempt wind farm through an association of the Eolectric Club, L.P. with Fiera Axium Infrastructure Inc., who is the manager of Fiera Axium Infrastructure Canada, Limited Partnership. The purpose of the Eolectric Club, L.P. is to invest in wind farm projects...

MONTREAL, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Boralex Inc. ("Boralex" or the "Corporation") announces the acquisition of an electricity supply agreement (the "Agreement") for a wind power project with an installed capacity of 50 megawatts. Boralex intends to develop this project in the Témiscouata Regional County Municipality (RCM) in Québec. Patrick Lemaire, President and CEO of Boralex, says that "the announcement of this new project shows Boralex's strong positioning in the...

VAL D'OR, QC, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Cree Regional Economic Enterprises Company Inc. ("CREECO Inc.") and Dumas Contracting Ltd. ("Dumas") announced today that they have formed an alliance by signing a strategic partnership agreement. CREECO Inc. owns several companies such as Air Creebec, Cree Construction and Development Company, Valpiro, Gestion ADC, Quality Inn and Suites Val-d'Or, Eeyou Baril, and others. Under the terms of the agreement, the company, which has yet to...

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pioneer Transmission, a joint venture formed by American Electric Power and Duke Energy in 2008, will begin engineering, permitting and siting activities in 2012 on a 66-mile, 765-kilovolt electric transmission line in Indiana between the existing Greentown substation (approximately 15 miles east of Kokomo) and a new substation called New Reynolds (about 20 miles north of Lafayette). (Logo: <font size="2"...

MONTREAL, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - 9249-0416 Quebec Inc. is pleased to announce its reservation for 1000 MW of firm point-to-point electricity transmission service for 43 years, starting in 2015, on the Hydro-Québec system, under TransÉnergie's Open Access Transmission Tariff. This reservation, for wheel-through service from the Ontario/Quebec intertie to the proposed Champlain-Hudson Power Express line (CHPE) in New York State, is first in the queue for the delivery...

MONTREAL, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Hydro-Québec announces that it has negotiated on the Canadian domestic market the issue of CA$500,000,000 of debentures, Series JN, maturing on February 15, 2050. The debentures, with a coupon of 5.00%, payable semi-annually, will be offered on the market at a price of 123.836 plus interest deemed to have accrued from August 15, 2011. The yield is 3.811%. The lead manager for this issue is National Bank Financial Inc. with...

MONTREAL, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - On behalf of "The Electric Circuit" partners - RONA, Les Rotisseries St-Hubert, METRO and the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) -, Hydro-Québec is launching the first open request for proposals to supply 120 public charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles. Supplied with clean, renewable energy, the charging stations will be operational in early 2012 at the partners' business sites and at several AMT park-and-ride facilities....

BOULDER, Colo., July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers are enjoying a better experience when calling their electric and gas companies' interactive voice response systems (IVRs) compared to previous years, according to the "E Source Review of North American Electric and Gas Company IVRs: 2011." E Source found that 65 percent of the electric and gas companies reviewed improved the usability of their IVRs. In addition, none of the utility IVRs reviewed in 2011 are considered to be "very...

MONTREAL, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Hydro-Québec announces that it has negotiated a new issue of US$ 1,000,000,000 on the world market, Series JO, maturing on June 30, 2016. The debentures, guaranteed by Québec, dated June 30, 2011, will bear interest at 2.00%, payable semi-annually, on June 30 and December 30 of each year. The debentures will be distributed simultaneously on the Canadian, American, European and Asian markets by an international group...

Network reliability and Machine to Machine expertise key factors in selection of Rogers MONTREAL, June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Rogers Communications announced today that the Rogers team in Quebec will enable the provision of machine to machine (M2M) wireless connectivity across the province of Quebec to Hydro-Quebec. Rogers will connect Hydro Quebec's central system with up to 600 Smart Meter collectors, which aggregate data relayed from the province's 3.8-million Smart Meters....