Point Lepreau Generating Station will be temporarily shut down Thursday night to perform necessary repairs to a fueling machine.
The repairs and associated work are expected to take approximately two weeks.
NB Power will access the northeastern energy market and its own generating fleet to supply any additional power required by New Brunswickers until the station returns to full service.
In a news release, Site VP Sean Granville says they are proud the station has been continuously operating at an average capacity rate of over 99 per cent for 260 days straight since their last outage in the spring of last year.
He says good energy market conditions in New England and the low price of oil are both in their favour as we replace Lepreau’s output and work to address this issue.
