Dec 2009
KMH Engineering's Panel Fabrication Shop was awarded the contract to fabricate all the Unit Control Monitoring System Control Cubicles and Panels for Manitoba Hydro's 200 MW Wuskwatim Hydro Electric Power Dam.
About The Wuskwatim Hydro Dam
- Involves the development of a 200-megawatt generating station at Taskinigup Falls on the Burntwood River.
- Involves less than half a square kilometre of flooding.
- Includes an associated access road, construction camp, and other infrastructure.
- Located in the Nelson House Resource Management Area, approximately 45 km southwest of Thompson, 35 km southeast of Nelson House.
- Being developed by an equity partnership between Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) and Manitoba Hydro,
- Is the first time in Manitoba Hydro's History that they have entered into an equity partnership with a First Nations community on a generating station project.
- Scheduled for completion in 2011 at a cost of $1.3 billion.