The proposed deal would replace the controversial 1969 Churchill Falls contract, which expires in 2041, and could boost ...

Under the new call for tenders for wind power, Hydro-Québec will assign higher weight to Québec content when evaluating projects. It will give preference to local content and expenses incurred in ...

Two studies released Wednesday are preparing Quebecers for an increase in electricity rates, saying it’s inevitable and necessary to ensure the energy transition. The provincial government has limited ...

The primary reason for the outages was not equipment failure, but rather the violent winds that began affecting Quebec on Friday morning. According to Pascal Poinlane, a spokesperson for Hydro-Québec, ...

Hydro-Québec outage numbers steadily climbed throughout the morning. As of early afternoon, more than 85,000 customers lacked electricity in the province, the bulk of them in the Eastern Townships, in ...

Hydro-Québec has officially inaugurated the 1.55 GW Romaine hydroelectric complex on the Romaine River in Quebec, Canada, with all four generating stations now commissioned. Construction of the ...

Québec's network near its limit, forcing the utility to issue two rare alerts as it scrambled to meet the surge in demand for power.

As strong winds swept through Quebec, over 20,000 households remained without electricity by Saturday evening, highlighting the challenges faced by the province's electrical network. This article ...

MONTREAL — Éric Martel took over as Hydro-Québec’s chief executive in mid-2015 when the company’s troubles were apparent to even casual observers. Internal surveys showed employee engagement was at ...

QUEBEC — It was in 1990 that former Quebec energy minister Lise Bacon warned that Quebecers would be sitting in freezing houses lit by candles if the $13.3-billion Great Whale hydroelectric project ...

Normand Mousseau is a professor of physics at Université de Montréal and scientific director of the Institut de l’énergie Trottier at Polytechnique Montréal. Pierre Fitzgibbon’s resignation last week ...

The region that produces North America’s cheapest power faces a threat that seemed impossible just a few years ago — running short of electricity. Quebec spent years working to convince US states to ...