South River Power Generation Corporation

About

South River Power Generation Corporation (SRPGC) owns and operates an 800 kW waterpower facility, which was commissioned in the summer of 2010. SRPGC is wholly-owned by the Village of South River, a municipality in Central Ontario located on Highway 11 between Huntsville and North Bay. The new facility was built on a historically significant site, where a generating station operated from the early 1900s, supplying electricity to the community prior to its connection to the provincial grid in the 1960s. The new facility operates under a RESOP contract. The decade-long development process was spearheaded by the municipal council, and is an excellent example of successful collaboration between a community, individual citizens, and various agencies of the Province of Ontario.