The Ontario Power Generation plant in Ear Falls is
expanding to include an additional 12 megawatt
hydroelectric generating unit.
The new unit will be capable of generating 52 million
kilowatts an hour of clean, reliable hydro-electricity per
year, enough to power over 4-thousand homes.
Spokesperson John Earl says it will be built on the
English River, and will make good use of the available
water, while not changing it’s flows, or the flows out of
Lac Seul.
Construction will begin this spring, and the company
hopes to have the unit up and running by fall 2006.
