List of generating stations in British Columbia

This is a list of electrical generating stations in British Columbia, Canada.

Hydroelectric

List of most of the hydroelectric generating stations in British Columbia.

Hydroelectric stations owned by BC Hydro

A list of all grid-tied hydroelectric generation stations in British Columbia operated by BC Hydro. NameLocation Capacity (MW) Date Aberfeldie Dam 25.0 1953 Alouette Lake 9.0 1928 Ash River 28.0 1958 Bridge River 478.0 1948 Cheakamus 158.0 1957 Clowhom 33.0 1957 Elko 12.0 1924 Falls River 7.0 1930 Gordon M. Shrum (W.A.C. Bennett Dam) 2,730.0 1968 John Hart 138.0 1947 John Horgan 1,100 2025 Jordan River 170.0 1971 Kootenay Canal 583.0 1975 Ladore 47.0 1958 La Joie 25.0 1957 Lake Buntzen 76.8 1951 Mica 2,746.0 1976 Peace Canyon 694.0 1980 Puntledge 24.0 1955 Revelstoke 2,480.0 1984 Ruskin 105.0 1930 Seton 48.0 1956 Seven Mile 805.0 1979 Shuswap 6.0 1929 Spillimacheen 4.0 1955 Stave Falls 91.0 1912 Strathcona 64.0 1958 Wahleach 65.0 1952 Walter Hardman 8.0 1960 Waneta Dam*490.01952Whatshan 55.0 1972 Total operating stations (MW) 13,304.8*Waneta Dam has been wholly owned by BC Hydro since July 2018 after Fortis BC finalized an agreement with Teck to sell its 66% interest in the dam, but BC Hydro had first rights to purchase the remaining 66% from its first 1/3 ownership deal.

Privately-owned hydroelectric stations This list includes all grid-connected hydroelectric generating stations not owned by the Crown Corporation BC Hydro. This list includes stations owned and operated by Independent Power Producers as well as by private utilities such as Nelson Hydro and FortisBC. In some cases, such as Lois Lake and Powell Lake, the electricity generated may be used solely for private industry, even if it is grid-connected.

NameLocation Capacity (MW) Date Owner Akolkolex 10 1995 TransAltaArrow Lakes/Keenleyside Dam 185 2002 Columbia Power CorporationAshlu Creek 49.9 2010 Innergex Renewable EnergyBarr Creek Tahsis 4.4 2011 Synex International Big Silver Creek 40.6 2016 Innergex Renewable EnergyBone Creek Valemount 19 2011 TransAltaBonnington Falls Nelson 16 1905 Nelson Hydro Boston Bar Hydro (Scuzzy Creek) 9 1995 Boston Bar LP Boulder Creek 25.3 2017 Innergex Renewable EnergyBox Canyon 16 2016 Elemental Energy Brandywine Creek 7.6 2003 Eco Flow Energy Brilliant Dam 145 1944 Columbia Power CorporationBrilliant Expansion 120 2007 Columbia Power CorporationBrown Lake 7.2 1996 Innergex Renewable EnergyCanoe Creek Ucluelet 6 2010 Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations Castle Creek McBride 8 2010 Castle Mountain Hydro Ltd. China Creek Port Alberni 6.5 2005 Upnit Power Corporation Coats IPP Gabriola Island 0.5 1985 Crofter's Gleann Enterprises Ltd. Corra Linn Dam 49 1932 FortisBCCulliton Creek 15 2016 BluEarth Renewables Cypress Creek Gold River 2.8 2009 Synex Energy Resources Ltd Dasque Creek Terrace 20 2015 BluEarth Renewables Doran Taylor Hydro Port Alberni 6 1996 Summit PowerDouglas Creek (Kwalsa Energy) 27.6 2010 Innergex Renewable EnergyEagle Lake Micro Hydro West Vancouver 0.2 2003 District of West Vancouver East Toba Powell River 147 2010 Innergex Renewable EnergyEast Twin McBride 1.6 1991 Brookfield Renewable PowerEldorado Reservoir Kelowna 1.1 2009 District of Lake Country Fire Creek (Kwalsa Energy) 25 2010 Innergex Renewable EnergyFitzsimmons Creek Whistler 7.9 2010 Innergex Renewable EnergyFurry Creek Furry Creek 10.4 2004 BluEarth Renewables Forrest Kerr Generating Station 195 2014 Coast Mountain Hydro LPHaa-ak-suuk Creek Hydro Ucluelet 6 2010 Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations Hauer Creek (aka Tete) Valemount 2.4 2007 Hauer Creek Power Inc. Hunter Creek Hope 11 2018 Connor, Clark & Lunn Hystad Creek Valemount 6 2002 Brookfield Renewable PowerJamie Creek 22 2014 BoralexJimmie Creek (Upper Toba Valley) 62 2016 Innergex Renewable EnergyKemano Generating Station 896 1953 Rio Tinto AlcanKokish River Port McNeil 45 2014 Brookfield Renewable PowerKwoiek Creek 49.9 2013 Innergex Renewable Energy, Kanaka Bar Indian Band Lamont Creek (Upper Stave Energy) 27 2010 Innergex Renewable EnergyLois Lake Powell River 37.4 1930 Brookfield Renewable PowerLong Lake (Cascade Creek) Stewart 31 2012? Regional Power Inc.Lorenzetta Creek Laidlaw 3.2 2016 Zella Hydro Lower Bear Creek Sechelt 10 2011 Regional Power Inc. Lower Bonnington 66 1925 FortisBCLower Clowhom Sechelt 11 2010 BluEarth Renewables Mamquam Hydro Squamish 58 1996 Atlantic Power Corporation Marion 3 Creek Port Alberni 4.6 2005 Marion Creek Hydro Inc. McDonald Ranch Grasmere 0.1 1993 McDonald Ranch & Timber Co. Ltd. McIntosh Creek McBride 1.2 2014 Snowshoe Power Ltd. McLymont Creek Stewart 66 2015 Northwest HydroMcNair Creek Hydro Port Mellon 9.8 2004 BluEarth Renewables Mears Creek Gold River 3.8 2004 Synex Energy Resources LtdMiddle Creek Terrace 8 2015 BluEarth Renewables Miller Creek Pemberton 29.5 2003 Innergex Renewable EnergyMontrose Creek Powell River 88 2010 Innergex Renewable EnergyMorehead Creek Williams Lake 0.11 1994 Morehead Valley Hydro Northwest Stave River Mission 17.5 2013 Innergex Renewable EnergyPingston Creek Revelstoke 45 2003 Brookfield Renewable Power, TransAltaPowell Lake Powell River 46 1911 Brookfield Renewable PowerPtarmigan Creek McBride 3.6 1993 Robson Valley Power Corp Raging River Port Alice 8 2002 Raging River Power & Mining Inc. Rutherford Creek Mount Currie 49.9 2004 Innergex Renewable EnergySakwi Creek Agassiz 6 2014 Connor, Clark & Lunn Seaton Creek Hydro (Homestead) New Denver 0.3 1997 Homestead Hydro Systems Sechelt Creek (Salmon Inslet) Sechelt 16.6 1997 Capstone InfrastructureSilversmith Sandon 0.2 1897 Silversmith Power & Light Skookum Creek Squamish 25 2014 Eco Flow Energy Soo River 13.1 1994 Summit PowerSouth Cranberry Creek Revelstoke 9 2008 Cranberry Creek Hydro LP South Slocan 54 1928 FortisBCSouth Sutton Creek Port Alberni 6 2005 South Sutton Creek Hydro Inc. Stokke Creek (Kwalsa Energy) 22 2010 Innergex Renewable EnergyTipella Creek (Kwalsa Energy) 18 2010 Innergex Renewable EnergyTretheway Creek Harrison Lake 21.2 2015 Innergex Renewable EnergyTyson Creek Hydro Sechelt 9.3 2009 BluEarth Renewables Upper Bear Creek Sechelt 10 2012 Regional Power Inc. Upper Bonnington 66 1907 FortisBCUpper Clowhom Sechelt 11 2009 BluEarth Renewables Upper Lillooet River Pemberton 81.4 2017 Innergex Renewable EnergyUpper Mamquam Squamish 25 2005 TransAltaUpper Stave River (Upper Stave Energy) 33.5 2010 Innergex Renewable EnergyVolcano Creek Stewart 18 2015 Northwest HydroWalden North Lillooet 16 1993 Innergex Renewable EnergyWaneta Expansion Trail 335 2015 Waneta Expansion LPWinchie Creek Ucluelet 4.4 2018 Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations Woodfibre Dam (Squamish Power Project) Squamish 1.6 1947 Western Pulp LPZeballos Lake Zeballos 22 2009 Zeballos Lake Hydro LP Bremner - Trio Harrison Hot Springs 27 2024 Bremner Trio Hydro Corp. Narrows Inlet Sechelt Inlet 33 2019 BluEarth Renewables Wedgemount Creek Whistler 5 2023 Concord Wedgemount Creek GP Clemina Creek Hydro Valemount 10.5 Sorgent.e Hydro Canada Serpentine Creek Hydro Blue River 10.5 Sorgent.e Hydro Canada Total operating stations (MW) 3,799.21

Other renewables Biomass, biogas and waste heat List of all biomass, biogas and waste heat power plants in British Columbia. NameLocation Capacity (MW) Date Owner Fuel 150 Mile House Waste Heat 150 Mile House 6 2008 Capital Power Waste heat Armstrong Wood Waste Co-Gen Armstrong 20 2001 Riverside Forest Products Biomass Metro Vancouver Waste-to-EnergyBurnaby 25 1988 Metro Vancouver municipal solid waste Cache Creek landfill gas utilization Plant Cache Creek 5 2015 Wastech Management Services Biogas Cariboo Pulp & Paper Quesnel 61 2012 West Fraser Timber Biomass Celgar Green Energy Castlegar 48 2010 Mercer Celgar LP Biomass Chetwynd Biomass Chetwynd 12 2015 West Fraser Timber Biomass Conifex Green Energy Mackenzie 36 2015 Conifex Power LP Biomass Crowsnest Pass Sparwood 11 2013 Enfinite BC LP Waste Heat Fort St. James Green Energy Fort St. James 40 2017 BioNorth Energy LP Biomass Fraser Lake Biomass Fraser Lake 12 2014 West Fraser Timber Biomass Greater Nanaimo PCC Cogeneration Nanaimo 0.335 2019 Regional District of Nanaimo Biogas Harmac Biomass Nanaimo 55 2014 Nanaimo Forest Products Ltd. Biomass Howe Sound Green Energy Port Mellon 112 2010 Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Corporation Biomass Intercon Green Power Prince George 31.7 2004? Canfor Biomass Kamloops Green Energy Kamloops 76 Kruger Kamloops Pulp LP Biomass LP Golden Biomass Golden 7.5 Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd. Biomass Merritt Green Energy Merritt 40 2018 Nicola Clean Power Ltd. Biomass Nanaimo Reservoir No. 1 Energy Recovery Nanaimo 0.3 2014 City of Nanaimo Waste kinetic energy Northwood Green Power Prince George 95 Canfor Biomass PGP Bio Energy Project Prince George 60 Canfor Biomass Savona ERG Savona 6 2008 EnPower Waste heat Skookumchuk Power Skookumchuk 51 Skookumchuck Pulp Biomass Vancouver Landfill Project Delta 7.4 2003 Maxim Power Biomass Williams Lake Power Plant Williams Lake 68 1993 Atlantic Power Corporation Biomass Cedar Road LFG Inc. (Ceased operations in 2020) Nanaimo 1.4 2009 Cedar Road LFG Inc. Biogas Fraser Richmond Soil and Fibre (closed in 2019) Richmond 1.03 2012 Harvest Power Biomass Hartland Landfill Project (closed in 2023) Victoria 1.6 2004 Maxim Power Biomass Powell River Generation (closed in 2021) Powell River 48 2015 Catalyst Paper Corporation Biomass Tolko Kelowna Cogeneration (closed in 2020) Kelowna 14.9 2007 Tolko Industries Biomass Total operating stations (MW) 886.234

Solar photovoltaic List of all grid-connected solar photovoltaic power stations in British Columbia. NameLocation Capacity (MW) Date Owner SunMine Kimberley 1.0 2015 City of Kimberley Tsilhqot'in Solar Farm Hanceville 0.99 2020 Tsilhqot’in Nation quA-ymn SolarLogan Lake152025quA-ymn Solar LPm.ah a temEEwuh SolarLogan Lake104Logan BC Solar Project LPONA UNB SolarNicola Lake15Upper Nicola Band and Okanagan Nation AllianceTotal operating stations (MW) 16.99

Wind

List of all wind farms in British Columbia. NameLocation Capacity (MW) Date Owner Bear Mountain Wind Park Dawson Creek 102 2009 AltaGas Cape Scott Wind Farm Port Hardy 99 2013 GDF-Suez Dokie Wind Chetwynd 144 2011 Dokie General PartnershipEye of the Wind 1.5 2010 Grouse Mountain Meikle Wind FarmTumbler Ridge1852017 Pattern Energy/PSP Investments Pennask Wind Farm 15 2017 Okanagan Wind Quality Wind Project Tumbler Ridge 142 2012 Capital Power Corporation Shinish Creek Wind Farm 15 2017 Okanagan Wind Moose Lake Wind Project Tumbler Ridge 15 2019 BoralexSukunka Wind Energy ProjectChetwynd152021Sukunka Wind Project LPZonnebeke Wind Energy ProjectChetwynd152021Zonnebeke Wind Project LPYǝyus Energy ProjectCampbell River197.2Yǝyus Energy Inc.Stewart Creek Wind ProjectFort St. John200Stewart Creek Power Inc / Innergex Renewable Energy Inc.Ni Ti Mountain Wind ProjectFraser Lake200Nithi Mountain Power GPK2 Wind ProjectKelowna160K2 Wind Power IncHighland Valley Wind ProjectLogan Lake197.2Highland Valley Wind IncMount Mabel Wind ProjectLogan Lake142.8Mount Mabel Wind IncBoulder-Elkhart Wind ProjectMerritt94Elkhart Wind LPNilhts'I Ecoener ProjectPrince George140Nilhts'I Ecoener Energy CorpTaylor WindTaylor200Taylor Wind Project IncTotal operating stations (MW) 748.5 Grid energy storage Grid energy storage, is a set of technologies connected to the electrical power grid that store energy for later use. Grid-Scale Batteries List of all Grid-Scale Batteries in British Columbia. Name Location Capacity (MW) Duration (hours) Date Owner Vancouver Island Grid-Scale Battery Energy Storage System 100 4 2030 BC Hydro Total operating stations (MW) 0 Natural gas List of all natural gas power plants in British Columbia.