Emera
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Traded as |
TSX: EMA S&P/TSX 60 component |
Industry | Electric & Gas Utilities |
Headquarters | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Areas served |
Florida Atlantic Canada New England Caribbean New Mexico |
Key people | Scott Balfour (CEO) |
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Number of employees | 7,400 (2016) |
Subsidiaries |
TECO Energy Nova Scotia Power |
Website |
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Emera Incorporated is a publicly traded energy utility company. As of 2017, it had revenues of $6.2 billion, and assets of $30 billion. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Emera's President and CEO is Scott Balfour. The company invests in electricity generation, transmission and distribution, and gas transmission and utility energy services. As of 2018 the Emera group of companies had approximately 7,400 employees.
History
Emera was created out of the privatization of the provincial Crown corporation Nova Scotia Power Incorporated (NSPI). On December 2, 1998, NSPI shareholders voted to restructure the company to create a holding company which would be shareholder-owned, with the regulated utility being a wholly owned subsidiary of the holding company. On December 9, 1998, NSPI received approval to establish NS Power Holdings Incorporated and NSPI shareholders exchanged their shares in NSPI for shares in NS Power Holdings Inc. on a one-to-one basis on January 1, 1999. Common shares in NS Power Holdings Inc. began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Montreal Stock Exchange on January 6, 1999. The NS Power Holdings Inc. name was changed to Emera Incorporated on July 17, 2000.
In 2013, Emera acquired the Bridgeport Energy, Rumford Power, and Tiverton Power plants from Capital Power Corporation for $541 million.[2]
On September 4, 2015, Emera announced the acquisition of TECO Energy, a utility company based in Tampa, Florida, whose holdings include Tampa Electric, Peoples Gas (no relation to the Chicago-based company of the same name), and New Mexico Gas. Emera paid $10.4 billion for TECO. The deal closed in July 2016.[3]
Subsidiaries[4]
Electric Utilities
Nova Scotia Power is a vertically integrated utility in Nova Scotia, with 500,000 customers, and 2487 MW of generating capacity Tampa Electric, a vertically integrated utility in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, with 725,000 customers and 4700 MW of generating capacity Emera Maine is an utility with 130,000 customers in Maine, created through the merger of Bangor Hydro (acquired in 2002) and Maine Public Service (acquired in 2010)[5] - Emera Caribbean is an utility that serves 227,000 customers in the Caribbean. Its subsidiaries include:
Light and Power Holdings - LUCELEC in St. Lucia Barbados Light and Power Company in Barbados Grand Bahama Power Company in The Bahamas Dominica Electricity Services in Dominica
Natural Gas Utilities
- New Mexico Gas is a natural gas utility in New Mexico with 513,000 customers.
- Peoples Gas is a natural gas utility in Florida with 365,000 customers.
Other Subsidiaries
- Emera Energy owns power plants and trades and markets natural gas and electricity. It has 1435 MW in wholly owned capacity. Power plants owned include:
Bear Swamp Hydroelectric Power Station, a 600 MW hydro-electric plant in northern Massachusetts, 50% owned by Emera Bridgeport Energy, a 520 MW natural gas plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut Bayside Power, a 290 MW natural gas plant in Saint John, New Brunswick Rumford Power, a 265 MW natural gas plant in Rumford, Maine Tiverton Power, a 265 MW natural gas plant in Tiverton, Rhode Island
- Emera New Brunswick runs the Brunswick Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline through New Brunswick, Canada
- Emera has a 12.5% ownership stake in the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline
References
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(help) - ↑ "Capital Power to sell three U.S. power plants to Emera". Reuters. 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
- ↑ "Tampa Electric announces its sale to Canadian company Emera". 2015-09-04. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
- ↑ Emera - Our Investments. http://www.emera.com/en/home/ourbusiness/corporatestructure/default.aspx. Retrieved August 22, 2013.
- ↑ "'New name, same commitment' — Bangor Hydro, Maine Public Service to become Emera Maine". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 2018-01-11.