The full, official, legal name of each company is given.
This list is known to be incomplete (I'm working on it).
Where it appears below, "NSL" refers to the Nova Scotia Legislature.
Unless otherwise stated, "Act" means an Act of the Nova Scotia Legislature.
NSL 1883 chapter 64 — Act to incorporate the Acadia Coal Co.
NSL 1898 chapter 165 — Amendment, relating to electric power
The Acadia EL Co. reported that, during the year
1912, its operating revenue was $7,168.55 and operating expenses were
$5,362.64, and it paid out $1,600.00 in dividends.
Source: PUB Annual Report 1912-13
By 1917, the steam-driven electric generating plant
of the Acadia Electric Light Company in Wolfville was 26 years
old. Its maximum output was 55 kilowatts, the service operated
only seven hours out of twenty-four, and, according to an ancient
townsman (who was interviewed by Harry Bruce in the mid-1970s) "You
could hardly see the light bulbs even when you turned them on,"
(translation: the voltage was well below the proper level — which meant
that the generating plant was overloaded, or the distribution circuits
were inadequate, or both).
The Wolfville Board of Trade (whose secretary, incidentally,
was George C. Nowlan, a federal cabinet minister forty years later)
decided somebody had to do something about the electricity supply in
Wolfville. It asked two of the sharpest young businessmen around town
to investigate the Gaspereau River as a power source.
They were Charles H. Wright, a capable and popular building
contractor, and Roy A. Jodrey, farmer, apple speculator, and
fair-haired boy of the W.H. Chase organization. L.E. Shaw, a brick
manufacturer who was also president of the Wolfville Board of Trade,
wrote many years later that Jodrey and Wright "never came back to
report. They found more than we had anticipated."
They found a waterfall, formed a company (Gaspereaux River
Light, Heat & Power Company), built a dam, installed a powerhouse,
and built electric transmission lines out across the Annapolis Valley.
Wright and Jodrey's hydroelectric generating plant at Stivers Falls,
White Rock, Kings County, began to operate on February 25, 1920.
By May 1920, it was producing electric power for Wolfville,
Greenwich, and Port Williams...
Source: Excerpted from pages 114 and 119, The Story of R.A. Jodrey, Entrepreneur (book), by Harry Bruce, McClelland and Stewart, 1979
NSL 1887 chapter 94 — Act to incorporate the Amherst Electric Light & Water Co. Ltd.
In the 1920s, the Associated Gas & Electric Company of New York was busily buying Nova Scotia utilities.
Source: Page 137, The Story of R.A. Jodrey, Entrepreneur (book), by Harry Bruce, McClelland and Stewart, 1979
The Associated Gas & Electric Co. was broken up in the mid-1930s, under the U.S. Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, which provided for the regulation of utility holding companies by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Title I of the Public Utility Act of 1935 is known as the Public Utilities Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA). PUHCA was enacted to eliminate unfair practices and other abuses by electricity and gas holding companies by requiring federal control and regulation of interstate public utility holding companies. A regulatory bargain was created between utilities and the government. In exchange for an exclusive service territory, utilities are required to provide reliable electric service to all customers at a regulated rate. A holding company under PUHCA is an enterprise that directly or indirectly owns 10% or more of stock in a public utility company. To eliminate the complex and confusing structure of holding companies that had made them almost impossible to regulate, Section 11b of Title I (the "Death Sentence Clause") of PUHCA abolishes all holding companies that were more than twice removed from their operating subsidiaries. All electric and natural gas holding companies are required to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Under PUHCA, the SEC regulates mergers and diversification proposals of holding companies whose subsidiaries engage in retail electricity or natural gas distribution. In addition, PUHCA requires that before purchasing securities or property from another company, a holding company must file for approval with the SEC.
NSL 1916 chapter 96 — Act to incorporate the Atlantic Power & Development Co. Ltd.
NSL 1923 chapter 121 — Act respecting the Avon River Power Co. Ltd.
In 1921, the Avon River Power Company was incorporated by Roy Jodrey and Charles Wright. The company had its head office in Windsor.
The Avon River Power Co. bought the Windsor Electric Light
& Power Co. in November 1925, and the Gaspereaux River Light, Heat
& Power Co. in 1926.
In April 1929, the Nova Scotia Light & Power Co. bought
Avon River Power Co. and thereafter operated it as a wholly-owned
subsidiary.
During 1931, the Avon River Power Co. bought six small electric utilities:
Centreville Electric Light & Power Company,
Gaspereaux Valley Electric Light Company,
Lower Horton Electric Company,
Kingston Electric Light Commission,
the Town of Middleton's electric power system, and
Sheffield Mills Light & Power Company.
In August 1941, the Avon River Power Co. bought the electric
power distribution system owned and operated by the Canning Water
Commissioners.
NSL 1919 chapter 139 — Act to incorporate the Barrington Electric Co. Ltd.
Also see: Barrington MunicipalityThe Barss Corner EL Co. was incorporated on 23 June 1921. The BCEL Co. was purely a distributing company, meaning it did not generate any electric power; it purchased all of its electric power from J. Zwicker & Son of New Germany.
NSL 1899 chapter 137 — Act to change the name of the Bear River Electric Light, Heating & Power Co to the Bear River & Digby Electric Light, Heating & Power Co.
Also see: Bear River Electric Light, Heating & Power Co. Ltd.NSL 1899 chapter 137 — Act to change the name of the Bear River Electric Light, Heating & Power Co to the Bear River & Digby Electric Light, Heating & Power Co.
Also see: Bear River & Digby Electric Light, Heating & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1898 chapter 133 — Act to incorporate the Bedford Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1899 chapter 136 — Amendment
NSL 1901 chapter 171 — Amendment
NSL 1903 chapter 182 — Amendment
NSL 1906 chapter 156 — Amendment
NSL 1908 chapter 137 — Amendment
NSL 1909 chapter 131 — Amendment
NSL 1897 chapter 111 — Act to incorporate S.P. Benjamin Co. Ltd.
NSL 1900 chapter 165 —
This photograph appears on page 152 of "White Rock Past and Present"
by Doris Atwell, published 2004
This postcard was postmarked in Kentville in September 1915.
The photograph is believed to have been taken some years before 1915.
Located where the Black River flows into the Gaspereau River, White Rock – often called White Rock Mills – has seen numerous mill operations, including that of S.P. Benjamin. About 1885 Benjamin bought out the Calder and Freeman mill along with much of the timberlands upriver and around the lakes. Running day and night with 75 men employed, in one year his operation shipped seven million board feet of lumber out of nearby ports. The route travelled by horse and ox teams over the Deep Hollow Road (paved now but not then) to Wolfville, Canning and Port Williams was no easy haul.
— Historic Kings County (booklet), Kings County Historical Society, 2004
A PUB report dated 30 June 1927 states that:
Mr. Norman Bethune, owner of the plant, told the PUB that the
generating equipment consists of one 15 horsepower oil engine
[probably a single-cylinder Diesel (compression-ignition) engine]
belted to a ten kilowatt Direct Current [DC] 110-volt
generator. The distribution system includes 1.5 miles [about
2.4 km] of line carried for the most part on poles owned by the
Maritime Telegraph & Telephone Company, only fourteen poles having
been supplied by Mr. Bethune.
[Comment: Since this was a DC system, there were no transformers anywhere – the entire system operated at the generator voltage. A system operating at 110 volts DC could not serve customers located 1.5 miles from the generating plant – the voltage drop would be excessive – thus it can be inferred that the generating plant was located roughly at the geographic center of the service area, with distribution lines radiating in at least two directions, east and west, and probably in four directions, so that no customer would be much more than about 2000 feet [600 metres or so] from the generator. Even with this arrangement, the distribution system would not have been able to supply electricity to the farthest customer at satisfactory voltage. A ten kilowatt generator supplying 110 volts will be delivering about 90 amperes. Assuming the distribution system radiated in four directions, with the load divided equally among all four lines (the most favourable arrangement), each circuit would be carrying more than 20 amperes, and the voltage drop would be dramatic even over a distance of two or three blocks. Mr. Bethune's DC system, as he well knew, was not capable of reaching even to the town outskirts, but this was a startup operation, financed on a shoestring, and it was good enough to bring electric lights to the area for the first time.]
The PUB report continues: The total capital cost of plant installed
to date, including land and buildings, is approximately $4,000.
The system has been in operation for five months and has at present
23 consumers connected with the expectation of serving a total of
40 consumers, together with nine 60-watt street lights.
The operating expenses for the five months amounted to
$640.00, prorated for twelve months would total $1536.00. To this
should be added for interest, depreciation and return on investment
$480.00, making a total required annual income of $2016.00 (for a
sustainable continuing operation).
The revenue for the five months was $395.64, which would
amount to about $950.00 for the year, less than one-half the return
Mr. Bethune is entitled to. While slightly more than
one-half of the prospective consumers are at present being served, it
is doubtless true that the most profitable part of the load is
connected and the balance when connected will not yield revenue in as
great a proportion, while additional fuel cost will further increase
the operating costs...
However, Mr. Bethune has expressed a willingness to forego an
adequate return during the time the load is being built up, and it is
the feeling of the Board (that Mr. Bethune should be permitted to
continue his electric utility service)...
— Source: PUB Annual Report 1925, pages 117-118
Incorporated 27 September 1983
In 1984, Black River Hydro Limited built a 230 kW hydro-electric generating plant in Melford, Guysborough County. The plant went into operation (first sale of electricity through the meter to Nova Scotia Power Inc.) on 4 July 1984. Since that time it has operated the generating station, and sold electricity to Nova Scotia Power Inc., on a contract term that now (2006) entends to 2023. Black River Hydro Ltd. was the first small-scale privately-owned company in Nova Scotia to successfully negotiate a contract to sell hydroelectric power to the provincial utility. The company is a leader in proving that small companies can own and operate small electrical generating facilities and sell power to the local electric utility company.
Black River Hydro Ltd. is a one-man company. According to the official records of the Joint Stock Registry (August 2006), Neal Livingston is the sole director, president, secretary, and treasurer of the company.
Reference: Profile
NSL 1901 chapter 147 — Act to incorporate the Blockhouse Electric Light & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1888 chapter 132 — Act to incorporate the Bridgetown Electric Light Co. Ltd.
Also see: Bridgetown Electric Light & Power Co. Ltd.Electric utility companies were required to report annually to the PUB, certain basic statistics such as operating revenue, operating expenses, taxes, debt, and the like. For the year 1912, the Bridgetown EL Co.'s statistics are missing in the PUB Annual Report, and the note "burned out" appears on that line. There is no further information; this note may mean that there was a fire in the company's office and its records were destroyed.
NSL 1898 chapter 148 — Act to incorporate the Bridgetown Electric Light, Heat & Power Co. Ltd.
Also see: Bridgetown Electric Light Co. Ltd.NSL 1898 chapter 150 — Act to incorporate the Bridgetown Water, Power & Light Co. Ltd.
Also see: Bridgetown Electric Light Co. Ltd.
NSL 1891 chapter 148 — Act to incorporate the Bridgewater Electric Light, Water, & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1898 chapter 158 — Act to confirm the sale of the Bridgewater Electric Light, Water, & Power Co.
NSL 1897 chapter 103 — Act to incorporate the Bridgewater Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1898 chapter 158 — Act to confirm the sale of the Bridgewater Electric Light, Water, & Power Co.
Brooklyn Energy Limited Partnership
[RJSC ID#2305412] was registered as a Nova Scotia Limited
Partnership on 17 November 1993 with the Nova Scotia Registry of
Joint Stock Companies. Its registered office was at 5151 George
Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Brooklyn Energy Centre [RJSC ID#2375135] was registered
as a Business Name on 10 June 1994 with the Nova Scotia Registry
of Joint Stock Companies. Its registered office was at 5151 George
Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Source: Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies [RJSC]
http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/business/rjsc/
On March 11, 1994, Energy Initiatives Inc. (EI)
entered into an agreement with Polsky Energy Corporation of Brooklyn
Inc. to invest up to US$9,700,000 of equity in Brooklyn Energy Limited
Partnership.
The equity will be used towards the construction and operation
of a 24 MW wood and oil-fired cogeneration facility, which is
located in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada. Commercial operation of the
facility is scheduled to commence in 1996. EI Services Canada
Limited was formed to provide operations and maintenance services to
EWGs in Canada.
General Public Utilities Corporation (GPU) holds
100% of the equity in EI Services Canada Ltd.;
100% of the equity in EI Canada Holding Ltd.;
100% of the equity in EI Brooklyn Investment Ltd.;
100% of the equity in EI Brooklyn Power Ltd.; and
75% of the equity in Brooklyn Energy LP.
EI Services Canada Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
EI Canada Holding Limited, which in turn is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Energy Initiatives Inc. The remaining 75% of the equity
in Brooklyn Energy LP is held by Polsky Energy Corporation of Brooklyn
Incorporated and Brooklyn Cogen Limited, which are incorporated in
Canada.
On March 11, 1994, a letter of credit in the face amount of
US$9,700,000 was issued by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, in favor
of The Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada to support EI's equity
commitment to Brooklyn Energy Limited Partnership. The letter of credit
carries a fee equal to 0.625 of 1 percent per annum of the face amount,
and expires on December 11, 1996. GPU entered into the related
reimbursement agreement.
On December 11, 1996, a letter of credit in the face amount of
$9,700,000 issued on March 11, 1994 and scheduled to expire on December
11, 1996, was extended to June 11, 1997. The letter of credit was
issued by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, in favor of The Mutual
Life Assurance Company of Canada to support GPU International's equity
commitment to Brooklyn Energy Limited Partnership. The letter of credit
carries a fee equal to 0.625 of 1 percent per annum of the face amount.
GPU entered into the related reimbursement agreement.
Date: April 4, 1997 — GPU International has agreed to
contribute C$12,944,000, or approximately US$9,700,000, in equity and
an additional C$1,000,000, or approximately US$700,000, in subordinated
debt to Brooklyn Energy Limited Partnership, which owns a 24 MW
wood and oil-fired cogeneration facility located in Brooklyn, Nova
Scotia, Canada. Commercial operation of the facility commenced in April
1996.
Sources: Official reports dated 27 Jan 1994,
30 Aug 1995, 16 Nov 1995, 1 Apr 1996,
8 May 1996, 31 May 1996, 30 Aug 1996,
27 Feb 1997, 4 Apr 1997, 2 Jun 1997,
9 Aug 1997, 21 Aug 1997, 3 Dec 1997, and
4 May 1998,
by General Public Utilities Corporation, Parsippany, New Jersey
to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.
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EI Services Canada is closing its operation of the
Brooklyn Energy Centre and is looking to its investors to pick up the
pieces. Due to continuing financial losses, the wood-fired electric
power generating station will no longer be run by the company as of the
end of February. Company spokesperson Pat Doll says contracts to supply
electric power and steam to its customers are not enough to keep the
operation afloat. He noted that start-up problems have been a thorn in
the company's side since the plant began operation in 1996. The plant
has a 20-year contract to supply steam to Bowater Mersey, and a 33-year
contract to supply 22 megawatts of electric power to Nova Scotia
Power Inc. Bowater relies on the plant for about 75% of the steam it
needs for its pulp and newsprint manufacturing operations.
"EI Services Canada has announced it will cease providing
operating and maintenance services to the Brooklyn Energy Centre on or
before 1 March 1998. This decision has resulted from the inability
of the owner, Brooklyn Energy Partnership, to pay certain amounts which
are due to EI Services Canada," said a release sent out by fax on
7 January 1998.
Although EI Services, a subsidiary of Polsky Energy
Corporation of Illinois, will no longer operate the plant, the door is
open for the investors to restructure the plant's operations, Doll
said. "The lending institutions will now decide its future," he said.
"Our hope is that they would continue its operation under new
management. It is a very good plant." 28 people work at the plant,
which has a payroll of around $1,000,000 annually. Layoff notices were
issued on Monday, 29 December 1997, and are effective in eight
weeks.
The plant is located in Brooklyn, Queens County, across
Highway 3 from the Bowater Mersey paper mill. It burns wood products
such as bark and other wood scraps from Bowater Mersey and other
producers of wood waste, and supplies steam to Bowater for use in the
mill's operation. The plant's electrical output is purchased by Nova
Scotia Power Inc., and is fed into the provincial electrical grid. A
group of companies invested close to $80,000,000 to build the Brooklyn
generating station. Federal, provincial, and municipal governments
invested more than $12,000,000 in the project.
Excerpted from the Liverpool Advance, 7 January 1998, and
the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, 8 January 1998
The final sale of the Brooklyn Energy Centre is
complete. The plant has been sold to the original lenders of the
project, a group of large insurance companies. The plant will continue
to be operated by South Shore Power Service.
[Bridgewater Bulletin, 24 February 1999]
The McCarthy Tetrault law firm acted on behalf of a syndicate of life insurance companies in connection with the acquisition and financing of the Brooklyn Energy Center.
The Brooklyn Energy Centre is a $75,000,000 waste
wood co-generation facility supplying electrical energy to Nova Scotia
Power Inc. and steam energy to Bowater Mersey Paper Company. The
plant's electrical capacity is 28 MW gross (electrical output of
the turbine generator) or 22 MW net (after deducting the plant's
internal use of power for electric motors for pumping boiler feedwater,
driving conveyor belts, processing fuel, rotating field excitation,
lighting, etc.)
Photograph of the Control Room at Brooklyn Energy
http://access.nscc.ns.ca/Industry/students.htm
November 2001 — Brooklyn Power Corporation, which
supplies steam to the Bowater Mersey paper mill, is suing Bowater for
six million dollars. In papers filed with the Supreme Court of Nova
Scotia, Brooklyn Power claims Bowater owes it $6,100,000 in payments
dating to May 2000. That's when the province forced the steam plant to
use a higher grade of fuel to fire its boilers to supply Bowater.
The steam plant, located across Highway 1 from the
Bowater mill at Brooklyn in Queens County, has been supplying Bowater
with steam since 1993, first under the ownership of Brooklyn Energy and
recently under the ownership of Brooklyn Power. Brooklyn Power's fuel
is mainly wood waste — tree bark and wood scraps — it gets from
Bowater. Bowater agreed to pay Brooklyn Power "at a price determined in
part by the actual average weighted cost of fuel oil Brooklyn Power
uses," the power company's statement of claim says.
The Environment Department originally allowed Brooklyn Power
to burn number 6 fuel oil, commonly called Bunker C. In 2000
the department amended its permit forcing Brooklyn Power to use higher
grade number 2 oil, which costs more than bunker C.
Since the revised permit went into effect, Brooklyn Power has
sent Bowater monthly invoices with the recalculated amount, but
"Bowater has refused to pay the extra costs associated with the
required change in fuel oil," Brooklyn Power said in its statement of
claim. Bowater has until early December to file a defence.
In 1998, Brooklyn Energy Limited Partnership, which designed
and built the steam plant and operated it for the first few years, went
bankrupt. A year later, a group of insurance companies that had been
among its secured creditors, bought it.
Last month, Finance Minister Neil LeBlanc wrote off $911,527 the defunct partnership owed the province.
[Halifax Chronicle-Herald, 21 November 2001]
NSL 1889 chapter 128 — Act to incorporate the Canada Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1898 chapter 167 — Act to authorize the Company to sell property to the Town of Amherst
NSL 1913 chapter 166 — Amendment
Her Majesty the Queen . . . . 2500 preferred shares
Her Majesty the Queen . . . . 8970 common shares
George I. Smith . . . . . . . 5 common shares
Harvey W.L. Doane . . . . . . 5 common shares
Ronald G. Smith . . . . . . . 5 common shares
J. Craig MacDonald . . . . . . 5 common shares
Roderick J. McSween . . . . . . 5 common shares
William L. Jodrey . . . . . . 5 common shares
----
Total 9000 common shares
2500 preferred shares
Source: 1961 Annual Report of the Public Utilities Board, pages 86-87
NSL 1914 chapter 181 — Act to incorporate the Canadian Provincial Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1915 chapter 93 — Amendment
NSL 1918 chapter 128 — Amendment
NSL 1919 chapter 164 — Amendment
NSL 1911 chapter 113 — Act to incorporate Canadian Tungsten Mines Ltd.
NSL 1912 chapter 187 — Amendment
NSL 1912 chapter 188 — Amendment
NSL 1913 chapter 173 — Amendment
NSL 1914 chapter 182 — Amendment
NSL 1914 chapter 183 — Amendment
NSL 1915 chapter 94 — Amendment
In 1911 a company was incorporated under the name of
The Canadian Tungsten Mines Limited, which name was afterwards changed
more than once, and in 1913 it was called The Halifax Power Company
Limited. The Act of incorporation gave legal authority to the company
to engage in certain business activities, which included mining of
scheelite and tungsten, transportation of freight and passengers on
land or water from places in Nova Scotia, and the authority to
"generate, sell and deliver, electricity or electric energy generated
from steam or water power, and to build and maintain dams and make use
of water power, and generate, sell and deliver, energy generated from
water power."
Source: Excerpted from the decision of the Nova Scotia
Supreme Court dated 18 September 1913, on the appeal of Miller
versus Halifax Power Co. Ltd. and Thomson versus Halifax Power Co.
Ltd., as reported on pages 394-408 of the Eastern Law Reporter, volume XIII number 5, 24 December 1913, published by the Carswell Company, Toronto.
Total pole line in service (April 1922) about 11 miles, from the point of connection with Gaspereaux River Light, Heat & Power Company near Port Williams, to the customers in the serviced territory. Canard EL&P Co. never operated a generating plant, and bought its electric power wholesale from Gaspereaux River LH&P Co. Beginning in 1923, Canard EL&P Co. sold electric power wholesale to Centreville EL&P Co.
NSL 1893 chapter 158 — Act to incorporate the Canning Water & Electric Light, Heating & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1894 chapter 93 — Amendment
NSL 1900 chapter 130 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton Electric Tramway & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1901 chapter 159 — Change name to Cape Breton Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1902 chapter 183 — Amendment
NSL 1909 chapter 136 — Amendment
NSL 1911 chapter 115 — Amendment
NSL 1917 chapter 197 — Amend chapter 130 of 1900
NSL 1900 chapter 130 — Act to incorporate the Cape Breton Electric Tramway & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1901 chapter 159 — Change name to Cape Breton Electric Co. Ltd.
Cape Breton Tramways Ltd. operated a streetcar system within the Town of Glace Bay and an interurban line (public transit electric railway) between Glace Bay and Sydney. On 29 September 1944, Cape Breton Tramways Ltd. transferred all its property to the Cape Breton Bus & Tram Co.
The Cape Split Development Company was created in 1916 with a four-fold
purpose:
• to examine the economic viability of the development of a hydroelectric
power plant at Cape Split;
• to obtain an engineer's report;
• to carry out
experimental work; and
• to raise the capital necessary to complete the project.
After raising its initial capital by selling shares, the company hired the services of the New York consulting engineers Bogart and Pohl, whose report emphasized
the growing need for hydroelectric power in the Maritimes and the suitability of
the Cape Split site for the generation of said hydroelectric power. Also hired was
the consulting engineer Charles M. Allen, who conducted experiments on the
efficiency of the Clarkson Current Motor prototype, which the company hoped to
use, and gave an extremely favorable report. All was ready for the beginning of
construction at the Cape Split site, except for the necessary capital.
Unfortunately, the initial $31,000 raised through the selling of shares was the
sum total of all of the company's capital, so the project fell through.
In 1928, the property was sold to Minas Basin Pulp and Paper, although the right to develop power on the property was retained by the company. This right was deeded to
the Nova Scotia Power Commission in 1957.
Sources:
http://library.acadiau.ca/archives/research/acadia_archives/NSPC.pdf
http://library.acadiau.ca/archives/research/acadia_archives/Moir_Alexander.doc
NSL 1872 chapter 96 — Act to incorporate the Carboline Gas Light Co. Ltd.
On 23 July 1923, Centreville EL&P Co. received official approval to issue 60 shares of common stock at a par value of $50.00 each, to raise $3,000 to pay for construction of its transmission line from "A.S. McDonald's corner, where connection is made with the Canard Electric Light & Power Co., into the district of Centreville, a distance of 2.3 miles. Construction materials included 90 cedar poles with cross arms and insulators, 2888 pounds of line wire, and seventeen 10-ampere kW·h meters." In July 1923, seventeen consumers were connected, "with the prospect of eight additional later". Centreville EL&P Co. never operated a generating plant. From the beginning in 1923, Centreville EL&P Co. bought its electric power wholesale from Canard EL&P Co. Canard EL&P Co. bought its electric power wholesale from Gaspereaux River Light, Heat & Power Co. In 1931, the Centreville EL&P Co. was sold to the Avon River Power Company.
NSL 1889 chapter 130 — Act to incorporate the Chambers Electric Light & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1894 chapter 101 —
NSL 1901 chapter 172 — Amendment
NSL 1904 chapter 177 — Amendment
Section 6 of chapter 130 of the Acts of 1889, as
amended, reads as follows: The Chambers Electric Light & Power
Company "is hereby empowered to erect and place upon and along the
streets, ways, and other necessary places and highways in the town of
Truro, and also in the county of Colchester, poles or other necessary
supports with wires thereon for the transmission of electric currents
for purposes of the company's business, but not to interfere with the
Nova Scotia Telephone or Western Union Telegraph wires now erected in
Truro, and no person or corporation shall erect or place any electric
light or other wires within three feet 90 cm of the wires of the company."
Source: Excerpted from the Nova Scotia court decision by
J. Ritchie dated 21 November 1913, on the action by the Town
of Truro versus Chambers Electric Light & Power Company, as
reported on pages 443-450 of the Eastern Law Reporter, volume XIII number 6, 15 January 1914, published by the Carswell Company, Toronto.
NSL 1888 chapter 129 — Act conferring certain powers upon the Chandler Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1890 chapter 202 —
NSL 1910 chapter 128 — Act to incorporate the Chester Light, Power & Water Co. Ltd.
NSL 1924 chapter __ — Act to incorporate the Chester Light & Power Co. Ltd.
The Chester L&P Co. was incorporated in 1924, by Foreman Hawboldt, Carrol Manning, Roy Hennigar, Harold Hilchie, Owen Zinck, and Eugene Publicover. In November 1924, the Chester L&P Co. had 73 electricity meters in service, which indicates it had 73 paying customers.
In 1928, Chipman's Corner EL&P Co. bought $408.20 worth of energy from Avon River Power Co.
Source: Page 123, The Story of R.A. Jodrey, Entrepreneur (book), by Harry Bruce, McClelland and Stewart, 1979
Cobequid Power Co. never operated a generating plant. When it started in business, it purchased all its electric power from The Falls hydroelectric generating station in Colchester County, owned and operated by the Northumberland Light & Power Co. To get this power from The Falls to its service area, it erected a 4-wire 3-phase 12.5 kV transmission line from The Falls 17.5 miles to Stewart's Bridge in Colchester County, and thence toward Truro. This transmission line bringing electric power from The Falls was the sole source of supply for the Cobequid Power Co. until 1 October 1933, when Cobequid ceased to draw its power from The Falls, and began purchasing it from the Truro Electric Commission. At that time, the transmission line became unnecessary to Cobequid's operation, and in May 1934 Cobequid applied to the PUB to sell part of this line, the 17.5 miles from the Falls to Stewart's Bridge, to Northumberland L&P Co. This transaction was complicated by the fact that this portion of the line served not only for transmission of wholesale electric power, but also supplied two domestic (residential) customers along the route. After extensive examination of the situation, on 27 July 1934 the PUB denied the application to sell the line.
NSL 1911 chapter 120 — Act to incorporate the Dartmouth & Cow Bay Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1914 chapter 170 — Amendment
NSL 1889 chapter 132 — Act to incorporate the Dartmouth Gas & Electric Light & Heating & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1920 chapter 181 — Amendment
The Dartmouth GELHP Co. was incorporated on 17 April 1889, under chapter 132 of the 1889 Acts of the Legislature. On 25 February 1935, official approval was given by the PUB for the Dartmouth GELHP Co. to sell its entire property, assets and undertaking to the Nova Scotia Light & Power Co.
NSL 1861 chapter 76 — Act to incorporate the Dartmouth Gas Light & Water Co. Ltd.
NSL 1890 chapter 189 — Act to incorporate the Dartmouth Tram & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1867 chapter 55 — Act to incorporate the Dartmouth Water & Gas Co.
The Digby EL Co. reported that, during the year 1912, its operating
revenue was $5,941.68 and operating expenses were $5,324.52, and it
paid $108.87 in taxes.
Source: PUB Annual Report 1912-13
On 14 June 1922, the Digby EL Co. received official approval
from the PUB to sell the whole of its undertaking to the Town of Digby.
Source: PUB Annual Report 1922
NSL 1882 chapter 61 — Act to incorporate the Eastern Development Co. Ltd.
NSL 1883 chapter 71 —
NSL 1884 chapter 71 —
NSL 1885 chapter 99 —
NSL 1886 chapter 141 —
NSL 1890 chapter 181 — To extend powers, as to Gas Works and Water Works, etc.
By Order In Council dated 9 June 1931, the name of
the Sydney Mines Electric Co. Ltd. was changed to Eastern Light &
Power Co. Ltd., with head office in Sydney.
In 1967, the Nova Scotia Power Commission acquired the shares of Eastern Light & Power Company Limited.
May 1940: Eastern Utilities Limited is an
investment holding Company which owns all the issued shares of Canada
Electric Company Limited; The Eastern Electric and Development Company
Limited; and with the exception of 33 shares, all of the 11,254 shares
(par value $100) of the Moncton Electricity and Gas Company Limited;
also the majority of common (voting) shares of Maritime Coal, Railway
and Power Company Limited; and all the issued shares of Joggins Coal
Company Limited.
The Managing Director of Eastern Utilities Limited is J.H.
Winfield of Halifax. Other directors are: Hon. F.B. McCurdy, P.C. of
Halifax; L.A. Lovett, K.C. of Halifax; Hon. C.W. Robinson of Moncton;
and H.A. Forsythe, M.M. King, and M.K. Bell of Charlottetown.
Source: a prominent display advertisement in the Kentville Advertiser,
9 May 1940, by Johnston and Ward, a large Montreal brokerage firm,
offering for sale shares of Eastern Utilities Limited. "The statements
contained herein are based on information which we believe to be
reliable..."
NSL 1892 chapter 155 — Act to incorporate the Edison Electric Light & Power Co. Ltd. of Springhill
NSL 1914 chapter 151 — Amendment
NSL 1902 chapter 137 — Act to incorporate the Egerton Tramway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1903 chapter 234 — Amendment
NSL 1904 chapter 133 — Act respecting assessment of the Egerton Tramway in New Glasgow, Stellarton, and Westville
NSL 1906 chapter 160 — Amendment
NSL 1909 chapter 142 — Act to confirm contract between New Glasgow Electric Co. Ltd. and Egerton Tramway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1909 chapter 143 — Amendment and name changed
NSL 1910 chapter 163 — Amendment
NSL 1916 chapter 105 — Amendment
NSL 1921 chapter 160 — Act to incorporate the Electric Association of Nova Scotia
On 2 December 1998 shareholders approved a proposal
to reorganize Nova Scotia Power Inc. to create a holding company
structure. This reorganization allows the regulated utility business of
Nova Scotia Power (NSPI) to be held in a corporation separate from
other business activities. On 9 December 1998 the Supreme Court of
Nova Scotia ratified the new holding company structure. On
1 January 1999 all NSPI common shareholders exchanged their shares
for NS Power Holdings Inc. common shares on a one-for-one basis.
Source: NS Power Holdings Inc. Annual Report 1998
http://www.emera.com/images/annreport98.pdf
NS Power Holdings Inc. common shares were approved for listing
on the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges and began trading on
6 January 1999. The company name was changed to Emera Inc. on
17 July 2000.
Source: Emera Inc. Annual Report 2000
http://www.emera.com/images/annreport00.pdf
In early October 2001, final regulatory approvals for the
merger between the Bangor Hydro Electric Company and Emera Inc. were
received. On October 10, 2001, Emera completed the acquisition of all
of the outstanding common stock of the Bangor Hydro Electric Company
for US$26.806 per share in cash.
Source: Bangor Hydro Electric Company Annual Report 2001 (SEC form 10-K)
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/020320/bgr.html
Bangor Hydroservice area |
In 1917, electric power service in the town of
Wolfville, supplied by the Acadia Electric Light Company in Wolfville
was far from satisfactory. The Wolfville Board of Trade (whose
secretary, incidentally, was George C. Nowlan, a federal cabinet
minister forty years later) decided somebody had to do something about
the electricity supply in Wolfville. It asked two of the sharpest young
businessmen around town to investigate the Gaspereau River as a power
source.
They were Charles H. Wright, a capable and popular building
contractor, and Roy A. Jodrey, farmer, apple speculator, and
fair-haired boy of the W.H. Chase organization. L.E. Shaw, a brick
manufacturer who was also president of the Wolfville Board of Trade,
wrote many years later that Jodrey and Wright "never came back to
report. They found more than we had anticipated."
Wright and Jodrey found a waterfall, formed a company
(Gaspereaux River Light, Heat & Power Company), built a dam (at
Stivers Falls), installed a powerhouse, and built electric transmission
lines out across the Annapolis Valley...
No one is precisely sure about the construction schedule of
the dam, powerhouse, and pulpworks that Wright and Jodrey built at
Stivers Falls, White Rock, Kings County, but two facts are known:
• Wright and Jodrey got provincial
approval for the dam on June 15, 1917. Charlie Wright had his
plans ready, and, that day, work began on construction of the dam.
• The hydroelectric generating plant
began to operate on February 25, 1920. By May 1920, it was
producing electric power for Wolfville, Greenwich, and Port Williams...
Source: Excerpted from pages 114, 118 and 119, The Story of R.A. Jodrey, Entrepreneur (book), by Harry Bruce, McClelland and Stewart, 1979
In 1926, the Gaspereaux River Light, Heat & Power Company was sold to the Avon River Power Company.
On July 29, 1920, the Gaspereaux Valley EL Company
applied to the Public Utilities Board for authority to issue
800 shares valued at ten dollars each, to get $8,000 to build six
miles ten kilometres of power line between the Stivers Falls powerhouse at White Rock and the village of Gaspereau.
Source: Excerpted from page 120, The Story of R.A. Jodrey, Entrepreneur (book), by Harry Bruce, McClelland and Stewart, 1979
In 1931, the Gaspereaux Valley EL Co. was sold to the Avon River Power Company.
NSL 1905 chapter 136 — Act to incorporate the Gold River Mines & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1906 chapter 168 — Amendment
The Gold River Mines & Power Co. was incorporated under 5 Edw. VII c. 136, passed by the Nova Scotia Legislature on 7 April 1905.
The Habitant Electric Light Company Limited was incorporated in 1921.
The Habitant EL Company never generated electric power, it
bought its electricity wholesale from the Canning Water Commission's
electric system.
On 21 August 1941, the Public Utilities Board gave official
approval for the sale of Habitant Electric Light Company to the Avon
River Power Company of Windsor, then a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nova
Scotia Light & Power Company of Halifax. The sale price
was $800.
Source: Public Utilities Board Annual Report, 1941, pages 82-88
See note 3
NSL 1913 chapter 141 — Act to authorize the Halifax Development Co. Ltd. to erect poles and wires
NSL 1913 chapter 142 —
NSL 1881 chapter 58 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Electric Light Co. Ltd.
NSL 1895 chapter 107 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Electric Tramway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1896 chapter 87 — Amendment
NSL 1897 chapter 92 — Act respecting amalgamation of Halifax Gas light Co. with People's Heat & Light Co.
NSL 1902 chapter 180 — Act to amend chapter 107 of 1895
NSL 1906 chapter 66 — Act respecting taxation by City of Halifax
NSL 1911 chapter 11 — Of Street Railway Companies
NSL 1912 chapter 209 —
NSL 1912 chapter 78 —
NSL 1913 chapter 194 —
"The first trolley car started out on February 13, 1896," according to a technical paper Halifax Electric Tramway Plant and Steam Engineering read on May 7, 1907, by Philip A. Freeman, Chief Engineer of the Halifax Electric Tram Company, before the Nova Scotia Society of Engineers. It is unclear whether this was a test run or the beginning of regular service, but it is certain that the electric street railway was able to operate at least one car on the track on this day.
There are very few soft coal regions where so little
use has been made of coal gas and coke as is the case in Nova Scotia,
notwithstanding that Nova Scotian coals are particularly suitable for
gas manufacture, and are "fat" coals, yielding a larger percentage of
by-products than any Canadian coals. The gas works of the Halifax
Electric Tramway Company in Halifax, and the Yarmouth Fuel Gas Company,
are the only gas works in the Province of Nova Scotia.
—
page 37 The Coal-Fields and Coal Industry of Eastern Canada, A General Survey and Description
by Francis W. Gray, Canada Department of Mines, 1917
NSL 1872 chapter 94 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Gas Consumers' Co.
NSL 1840 chapter 16 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Gas Light & Water Co.
NSL 1844 chapter 72 — Change name to Halifax Gas Light Co.
NSL 1857 chapter 71 —
NSL 1863 chapter 70 —
NSL 1864 chapter 64 —
NSL 1867 chapter 78 —
NSL 1874 chapter 85 —
NSL 1881 chapter 60 —
NSL 1887 chapter 123 —
NSL 1888 chapter 118 —
NSL 1889 chapter 122 —
NSL 1897 chapter 92 — Act respecting amalgamation with the Peoples' Heat & Light Co.
NSL 1840 chapter 16 — Act to incorporate the Halifax Gas Light & Water Co.
NSL 1841 chapter 19 — Amendment
NSL 1844 chapter 72 — Change name to Halifax Gas Light Co.
NSL 1911 chapter 113 — Act to incorporate Canadian Tungsten Mines Ltd.
NSL 1912 chapter 187 — Amendment
NSL 1912 chapter 188 — Amendment
NSL 1913 chapter 173 — Amendment
NSL 1914 chapter 182 — Amendment
NSL 1914 chapter 183 — Amendment
NSL 1915 chapter 94 — Amendment
NSL 1917 chapter 88 — Act to authorize the City of Halifax
to hold shares in the Halifax Power Co. Ltd. and to lend money thereto
NSL 1919 chapter 83 — Act to authorize and confirm agreement between City of Halifax and the Halifax Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1919 chapter 84 — Amendment
In 1911 a company was incorporated under the name of
The Canadian Tungsten Mines Limited, which name was afterwards changed
more than once, and in 1913 it was called The Halifax Power Company
Limited. The company proposed to develop a water power site at
St. Margaret's Bay, by damming the waters of North East River and
diverting them into the bed of Indian River, the latter being dammed at
various places.
Source: Excerpted from the decision of the Nova Scotia
Supreme Court dated 18 September 1913, on the appeal of Miller
versus Halifax Power Co. Ltd. and Thomson versus Halifax Power Co.
Ltd., as reported on pages 394-408 of the Eastern Law Reporter, volume XIII number 5, 24 December 1913, published by the Carswell Company, Toronto.
In 1933, the PUB officially declared that the Halifax Power & Pulp Company "is a public utility within the scope of the Public Utilities Act".
About 1915-1918, the steam-powered electric
generating plant of the Hantsport Fruit Basket Company sold about
$2,500 worth of electricity a year, to the town of Hantsport. The
company burned slack coal and wood waste from its wood-working mill.
Source: Excerpted from page 114, The Story of R.A. Jodrey, Entrepreneur (book), by Harry Bruce, McClelland and Stewart, 1979
The Hillaton EL&P Company never generated
electric power, it bought its electricity wholesale from the Canning
Water Commission's electric system.
On 21 August 1941, the Public Utilities Board gave official
approval for the sale of Hillaton Electric Light & Power Company to
the Avon River Power Company of Windsor, then a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Nova Scotia Light & Power Company of Halifax. The sale price
was $350. At the time of the sale, the Hillaton EL Company served
31 customers.
Source: Public Utilities Board Annual Report, 1941, pages 82-88
See note 3
NSL 1902 chapter 145 — Act to incorporate the Inverness Electric Light, Heat & Power Co. Ltd.
In November of 1897 the Joggins Coal and Railway
Company which was operating a small electric generating plant at their
mine offered to provide electricity to light the streets of Joggins.
The only requirement was that the citizens provide the necessary poles,
wire and lanterns. This was quite an achievement for a small town at
this date as only the major centres had electricity. The citizens of
Joggins were excited about this latest development in their fair town
as travel out and about on the wooden sidewalks after dark would now be
considerably safer.
Source:
History of Joggins by Dara Legere
http://www.geocities.com/dblegere/home.html
NSL 1891 chapter 149 — Act to incorporate the Kentville Electric Light & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1892 chapter 175 — Amendment
NSL 1902 chapter 187 — To amend chapter 149 of 1891
NSL 1850 chapter 25 — Act to incorporate the Kerosene Gas Light Co.
NSL 1851 chapter 8 — Amendment
On 27 September 1922, the Kingsport EL Co. received
approval to issue 30 shares of common stock of par value $100.00 each,
to raise $3000 for capital expenditures — the cost of construction of a
power line from Habitant to Kingsport and a distribution system in
Kingsport.
The Kingsport EL Company never generated electric power, it
bought its electricity wholesale from the Habitant Electric Light
Company.
On 21 August 1941, the Public Utilities Board gave official
approval for the sale of the Kingsport Electric Light Company to the
Avon River Power Company of Windsor, then a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Nova Scotia Light & Power Company of Halifax. The sale price
was $2,600.
Source: Public Utilities Board Annual Report, 1941, pages 82-88
See note 3
(Note: Louisburg is the correct spelling for this company name, not Louisbourg.)
Cape Breton CountyNSL 1900 chapter 132 — Act to incorporate the Louisburg Electric, Water & Power Co. Ltd.
In 1931, the Lower Horton Electric Co. was sold to the Avon River Power Company.
NSL 1889 chapter 133 — Act to incorporate the Lunenburg Gas Co. Ltd.
NSL 1897 chapter 124 — Amendment
NSL 1898 chapter 160 — Amendment
In spite of its name the Lunenburg Gas Company Limited sold electric power, not gas, at least in its later years.
NSL 1888 chapter 117 — Act to incorporate the Lunenburg Water, & Electric Light, Heating & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1890 chapter 179 — Amendment
NSL 1892 chapter 187 — Amendment
NSL 1894 chapter 104 — Amendment
NSL 1895 chapter 130 — Amendment
NSL 1889 chapter 134 — Act to incorporate the Maritime Fuel & Heating Gas Co. Ltd.
NSL 1890 chapter 196 — Amendment
NSL 1887 chapter 102 — An Act to incorporate the New Glasgow Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1889 chapter 129 — Amendment, as to construction of Street Railways
NSL 1890 chapter 163 — Amendment, as to Powers of Directors
NSL 1891 chapter 178 — Amendment, as to borrowing money
NSL 1892 chapter 180 — Enacting several amendments
NSL 1893 chapter 182 — Enacting several amendments
NSL 1894 chapter 95 — Enacting several amendments
NSL 1895 chapter 145 — Enacting several amendments
NSL 1895 chapter 146 — Amendment, powers of Directors to borrow money
NSL 1896 chapter 110 — Amendment, limiting time for construction
NSL 1898 chapter 172 — Amendment, time for construction and completion
NSL 1909 chapter 142 — Act to confirm contract between New Glasgow Electric Co. Ltd. and Egerton Tramway Co. Ltd.
NSL 1909 chapter 143 — Amendment and name changed
NSL 1910 chapter 163 — Amendment
NSL 1916 chapter 105 — Amendment
In 1925, the PUB wrote: Thomas G. Nichol of Mahone Bay ... owns and operates a hydroelectric development at Canada Hill (in Shelburne County). In April 1924 (there seems to be some confusion in these dates) this plant was sold to the Town of Lockeport.
NSL 1888 chapter 124 — An Act to incorporate the North Sydney Electric Light & Water Co. Ltd.
NSL 1882 chapter 80 — An Act to incorporate the North Sydney Gas & Electric Light Co. Ltd.
NSL 1888 chapter 149 — An Act to incorporate anew
NSL 1890 chapter 170 — An Act to incorporate the North Sydney Water & Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1873 chapter 24 — Act to authorize the construction of a Tramway from White Rock Mills, by S.P. Benjamin and others
NSL 1897 chapter 111 — Act to incorporate S.P. Benjamin Co. Ltd.
NSL 1899 chapter 135 — Act to incorporate the Nova Scotia Electric Light Co. Ltd.
NSL 1900 chapter 165 — Amendment, limiting service area to Kings
and Annapolis Counties, and respecting sale by S.P. Benjamin Co. Ltd.
NSL 1901 chapter 174 — Amendment
NSL 1902 chapter 171 — Amendment
NSL 1887 chapter 92 — Act to incorporate the Nova Scotia Gas & Electric Light, Fuel & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1894 chapter 86 — Act to incorporate the Nova Scotia General Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1910 chapter 160 — Act to incorporate the Nova Scotia Hydraulic Co. Ltd.
NSL 1911 chapter 146 — Amendment
NSL 1913 chapter 190 — Act to incorporate the Nova Scotia Natural Gas Co. Ltd.
NSL 1916 chapter 117 — Amendment
NSL 1889 chapter 135 — Act to incorporate the Nova Scotia Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1890 chapter 193 — Amendment, authorize to purchase property of Halifax Street Railway Co.
NSL 1891 chapter 158 — Amendment
NSL 1892 chapter 184 — Amendment, as to claims upon the Halifax Street Railway Co.
Nova Scotia Power Incorporated (NSPI), a new
privately-owned electric utility company, began operating on 12 August
1992, the day it bought the the assets of Nova Scotia Power Corporation
(NSPC), which was wholly owned by the Government of Nova Scotia.
On 12 August 1992, Nova Scotia Power Incorporated (New NSP), a
new privately-owned electric utility company, officially bought the
assets of Nova Scotia Power Corporation (Old NSP). As the Halifax Chronicle-Herald
reported the next day, Chuck MacNeil, Nova Scotia's Minister of
Finance, "tightly clutching a $192,000,000 cheque, joined Premier Don
Cameron" and New NSP President Louis Comeau "to officially close the
deal to privatize the power utility ... The province's $192,000,000
cheque was the government's profit from the sale of $851,000,000 worth
of new NSP shares. The utility received a cheque for $557,000,000 ...
from RBC Dominion Securities, the lead underwriter" of the share sale
(RBC is a short form of 'Royal Bank of Canada').
See:
An Act to Permit the Corporate Reorganization of Nova Scotia Power Incorporated December 1998
http://www.canlii.org/ns/laws/sta/1998c.19/20041004/whole.html
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Nova Scotia Power Incorporated Fuel Sources for Electric Power Generation for the 12 Months of the Calendar Year |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 (MW·h) |
1993 (MW·h) |
1994 (MW·h) |
1995 (MW·h) |
1996 (MW·h) |
|
| Thermal, Coal Fired |
5,994,000 | 6,345,600 | 7,159,700 | 7,053,100 | 7,850,300 |
| Thermal, Oil Fired |
2,469,500 | 2,117,200 | 1,205,700 | 1,239,400 | 608,700 |
| Hydro | 875,000 | 877,600 | 1,012,000 | 883,200 | 1,111,600 |
| Purchased | 194,700 | 218,900 | 216,200 | 499,500 | 254,600 |
| Total Generated and Purchased |
9,533,200 | 9,559,300 | 9,593,600 | 9,675,200 | 9,825,200 |
| Less: Losses and Internal Use | 731,300 | 665,200 | 627,700 | 640,400 | 679,600 |
| Total Electrical Energy Sold | 8,801,900 | 8,894,100 | 8,965,900 | 9,034,800 | 9,145,600 |
|
Source: 1996 Annual Report, Nova Scotia Power Incorporated
[Note: The above figures, for 1 January 1992 to 12 August 1992, are those recorded by the Nova Scotia Power Corporation (NSPC), the former owner and operator of the electric power system which was sold to Nova Scotia Power Incorporated (NSPI) on 12 August 1992.] |
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| 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 365,672 | 371,270 | 375,553 | 380,055 | 384,856 |
| Commercial | 32,143 | 32,289 | 32,342 | 32,383 | 32,329 |
| Industrial | 1,533 | 1,537 | 1,581 | 1,633 | 1,686 |
| Other | 5,518 | 5,596 | 5,731 | 5,892 | 5,908 |
| Total | 404,866 | 410,692 | 415,207 | 419,963 | 424,779 |
On 2 December 1998 shareholders approved a proposal
to reorganize Nova Scotia Power Inc. to create a holding company
structure. This reorganization allows the regulated utility business of
Nova Scotia Power (NSPI) to be held in a corporation separate from
other business activities. On 9 December 1998 the Supreme Court of
Nova Scotia ratified the new holding company structure.
On1 January 1999 all NSPI common shareholders exchanged their
shares for NS Power Holdings Inc. common shares on a one-for-one
basis.
Source: NS Power Holdings Inc. Annual Report 1998
http://www.emera.com/images/annreport98.pdf
NS Power Holdings Inc. common shares were approved for listing
on the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges and began trading on
6 January 1999. The company name was changed to Emera Inc. on
17 July 2000.
Source: Emera Inc. Annual Report 2000
http://www.emera.com/images/annreport00.pdf
Nova Scotia Power Inc.
Net Peak Load
Wed. 27 Dec 2006 1810 MW
Thu. 28 Dec 2006 1895 MW
Fri. 29 Dec 2006 2016 MW
Sat. 30 Dec 2006 1881 MW
Sun. 31 Dec 2006 1846 MW
Sun. 14 Jan 2007 1840 MW
Mon. 15 Jan 2007 1979 MW
Tue. 16 Jan 2007 1968 MW
Wed. 17 Jan 2007 2144 MW
Thu. 18 Jan 2007 2086 MW
Sun. 02 Dec 2007 1878 MW
Mon. 03 Dec 2007 1995 MW
Tue. 04 Dec 2007 1887 MW
Wed. 05 Dec 2007 1974 MW
Thu. 06 Dec 2007 2006 MW
"Net load" is the total of "net generated power" for
all generating plants within the system.
"Net generated power," for an individual generator or power plant,
is the gross generated power less "station service."
"Gross generated power" is the measured power output at the
terminals of the generator, either for an individual generator
or for several generators within one plant.
"Station service" is the electric power consumed by equipment
within the generating plant itself. For hydro plants,
station service is minimal: a few kilowatts to run the pump
to provide pressurized oil for the governor, a small air
compressor, and the plant lights. For coal-fired steam power
plants, station service consumes as much as eight percent of
the generated power, for power to drive conveyor belts, to
pulverize the coal, to pump large quantities of cooling water,
to drive the forced draft and induced draft fans, lighting,
and all the other equipment needed to operate the plant.
Note: The load on an electric power system is controlled by the
customers or consumers, not by the electric utility company.
NSL 1902 chapter 178 — Act relating to Electric Light by the Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Co. Ltd.
From 1919 to 1924, Nova Scotia Tramways & Power Co. was under the management of Stone & Webster Inc., Boston.
In 1924, Isaac Walton Killam, through the Royal Securities Corporation, bought control of Nova Scotia Tramways & Power Co.
In 1928, Nova Scotia Tramways & Power Company Limited changed its name to Nova Scotia Light & Power Company Limited.
NS Power Holdings Incorporated (NSH), a holding
company, was incorporated on 23 July 1998. (A holding
company owns shares of other companies. That's all it does.
A holding company does not own any physical assets and does not
operate any business. NSH owns no generating plants, no transmission
lines, and produces no electricity. NSH owns NSPI, and NSPI owns the
generating plants and transmission lines, and produces the
electricity.)
Effective 1 January 1999, the common shareholders of Nova
Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI) exchanged all of their common shares for
common shares of NS Power Holdings Inc. on a one-for-one basis.
Nova Scotia Power Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emera
Inc., is the dominant electricity supplier in Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia
Power has 440,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers, and
assets totaling $2,800,000,000. NSP's operations are regulated by the
Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board, and include approximately 97% of
the generation, 99%of the transmission and 95%of the distribution of
electric power throughout Nova Scotia.
The wholly-owned subsidiaries of NS Power Holdings, in January 2000, were:
Nova Scotia Power Inc.
Enercom Inc.
NSP Pipeline Inc.
NSP U.S. Holdings Inc.
Strait Energy Inc.
NS Power Services Inc., and
Stellarton Basin Coal Gas Inc. (SBCGI).
NSP Pipeline Inc. and NSP U.S. Holdings Inc. own a 12.5% equity
investment in Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, which is regulated by
the National Energy Board (NEB) in Canada and the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) in the U.S. Enercom Inc. is an unregulated
subsidiary which has expanded NSH's energy product line to include
distribution of a full range of fuel oil products.
Sources:
The Halifax Chronicle-Herald, 18 and 23 February 2000
and SEDAR http://www.sedar.com/
NSL 1898 chapter 149 — Act to incorporate the C. O'Dell Electric Light Co. Ltd.
NSL 1898 chapter 170 — Amendment
NSL 1896 chapter 97 — Act to incorporate the Oxford Water & Power Supply Co. Ltd.
NSL 1899 chapter 92 — Act to authorize the Village of Oxford to
purchase the Water Works of the Oxford Water & Power Supply Co.
Ltd.
In a report dated 12 October 1934, the PUB wrote: Cyril L. Parks, "is the owner of a shingle mill at Noel, and in response to the requests of the people of the Village of Noel, he has entered upon the business of supplying electric energy to the public, and therefore has become a public utility..."
The Paradise Electric Co. was incorporated on 22 May 1920.
On 10 November 1922, the Paradise West EL Co. received approval to issue 45 shares of common stock of par value $100.00 each, to raise $4500 to pay the cost of construction of a transmission line and electrical distribution system.
NSL 1893 chapter 157 — Act to incorporate the Peoples' Heat & Light Co. Ltd.
NSL 1895 chapter 137 —
NSL 1896 chapter 102 —
NSL 1897 chapter 90 —
NSL 1897 chapter 91 —
NSL 1897 chapter 92 — Act respecting amalgamation of Halifax Gas Light Co. with the Peoples' Heat & Light Co.
NSL 1898 chapter 159 —
NSL 1899 chapter 162 —
NSL 1900 chapter 164 —
The Pereaux Electric Light & Power Company was incorporated in 1934. On 19 November 1934, the Pereaux EL&P Co. was authorized to issue 30 common shares at a par value of $100.00 each, to raise $3,000 to pay for construction of a transmission line and electrical distribution system.
— Source: PUB Annual Report 1934
As of 28 March 1935, the total capital expenditure was $4,181.62, "and it appears that this is a reasonable expenditure considering the amount of work done." On this date, the Pereaux EL&P Co. had fifteen customers connected and taking electric power, 13 domestic (residential) and two commercial customers; fourteen of these customers were shareholders in the company. The largest commercial customer was the British Canadian Fruit Association.
— Source: PUB Annual Report 1935, pages 46 and 47
On 13 May 1935, the Pereaux EL&P Co. got official approval for its schedule of rates:
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Pereaux Electric Light & Power Company May 1935
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Source: Public Utilities Board Annual Report 1935
On 21 August 1941, the Public Utilities Board gave
official approval for the sale of the Pereaux Electric Light &
Power Company to the Avon River Power Company of Windsor, then a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Nova Scotia Light & Power Company of
Halifax. The sale price was $3,250.
See note 3
— Source: PUB Annual Report 1941, pages 82-88
In May 2005, research in the PUB records in Halifax turned up this: Mr. Francis J. Hewett was President and Managing Director of the Pereaux EL&P Co. in 1934 and 1935 (beyond 1935 is unknown).
NSL 1846 chapter 41 — Act to incorporate the Pictou Gas Light Co.
NSL 1851 chapter 10 — Amendment
NSL 1885 chapter 110 — Act to incorporate the Pictou Gaslight Co. Ltd.
NSL 1892 chapter 162 — Act to incorporate the Port Hawkesbury Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1914 chapter 187 — Act conferring certain powers on the Sackville River Electric Co. Ltd.
On 25 February 1935, official approval was given by the PUB for the Sackville River Electric Co. to sell its entire property, assets and undertaking to the Nova Scotia Light & Power Co. Ltd.
NSL 1897 chapter 96 — Act to incorporate the St. Croix Paper Co. Ltd.
NSL 1899 chapter 169 — Amendment
NSL 1910 chapter 169 — Amendment
On 7 November 1922, the Sheffield Mills L&P Co. received approval from the PUB to issue 120 shares of common stock of par value $50.00 each, to raise $6000 for construction of a power distribution line. In 1931, the Sheffield Mills L&P Co. was sold to the Avon River Power Company.
NSL 1903 chapter 185 — Act to incorporate the Shelburne Electric Co. Ltd.
NSL 1900 chapter 151 — Act to incorporate the Shelburne Power Co. Ltd.
Approval issued by the PUB on 16 April 1934 to "Leonard Rodenizer doing business as the Sherbrooke Electric Company", engaged in the business of generating and distributing electric power to the public in the Village of Sherbrooke; Streetlighting Rate, operating from Twilight to Midnight, 60 watt lamps installed, maintained, and renewed by Sherbrooke Electric Co., $12.00 per lamp per year.
PUB reported that, as of 20 December 1909 the Standard Engineering Co. of Maccan in Cumberland County, supplied electricity to a "few houses" in Chignecto, Maccan, River Hebert, and Joggins.
No adequate history of the electric power industry in
Nova Scotia can be written without prominent mention of Stone &
Webster. In the 1920s and 1930s, Stone & Webster had important
financial and management associations with several Nova Scotia electric
utility companies.
For most of its existence the Cape Breton Electric Tramway
& Power Co. was a direct subsidiary of the Stone & Webster
traction empire.
From 1919 to 1924, Nova Scotia Tramways