Canadian Niagara Power Inc. is an electricity transmission and distribution utility servicing Fort Erie and

Port Colborne Port Colborne is a city in Ontario, Canada that is located on Lake Erie, at the southern end of the Welland Canal, in the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario. The original settlement, known as Gravelly Bay, dates from 1832 and was renamed after ...

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. Founded in 1892 as the Canadian Niagara Power Company, it operated the Rankine Generating Station from 1905 to 2006. Founded in

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, by American William Birch Rankine, the company was acquired by

Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation was a New York State utility company, which was acquired in 2000 by National Grid plc. The Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation designation was retired, using variations of NationalGridUS (such as National Grid Buffa ...

in 1950 and owned by

Fortis Inc. Fortis Inc. is a Canadian electric utility holding company, based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It operates in Canada, the United States, Central America and the Caribbean. In 2015, it earned . Fortis was formed in 1987, when shareho ...

since 2002. With the closure of Rankine GS in 2009, the company now focuses on power distribution and transmission network.

References

{{reflist 1892 establishments in Ontario Fortis Inc. Electric power companies of Ontario Niagara Falls, Ontario Fort Erie, Ontario Port Colborne Canadian companies established in 1892 Hydroelectric power companies of Canada