Ontario Power Generation

SILLS ISLAND GENERATING STATION

PLANT GROUP: Small Hydro Division
DRAINAGE BASIN: Lake Ontario
RIVER: Trent
NEAREST POPULATION CENTRE: Frankford (8 KM (5 Miles) Southeast)
IN SERVICE DATE: 1900
ACQUIRED BY HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER COMMISSION OF ONTARIO: 1937
FROM: Quinte And Trent Valley Power Company
Asset Transferred to Ontario Power Generation: April 1, 1999
NUMBER OF UNITS: 2
CONTROL: Northbury

HISTORICAL NOTE:
The plant was originally used as an open pit setting for two small turbines which operated the G.E. Sills Paper Mill. Installation of the third unit was originally planned for when the turbines were no longer in operation but was never carried out.

MISCELLANEOUS:
Sills Island Generating Station is Ontario Power Generation's second oldest remaining plant. The plant, built in 1900, is antedated only by DeCew Falls No. 1 which was built in 1898 on the Welland Canal.