Yukon Electrical Employees Contributed $14,000 in 2008
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The Yukon Electrical Company Limited has been providing electrical service to Yukoners for over a century. Chartered in 1901, the pioneer company began generating electricity for the residents of Whitehorse using a wood-fired, horizontal piston steam engine. Since then, Yukon Electrical has grown to serve over 15,000 customers in 19 communities from south of the Yukon border to north of the Arctic Circle. A private, investor-owned utility, Yukon Electrical is a member of the ATCO Group of Companies. Its head office and service centre is in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
Today, Yukon Electrical purchases power from Yukon Energy Corporation, a Crown corporation of the Yukon Government, for distribution to its customers in Whitehorse, Marsh Lake, Tagish, Teslin, Haines Junction, Carmacks, Stewart Crossing, Pelly Crossing, Carcross, Keno, and Ross River. Other Yukon Electrical service areas include Canyon Creek, Deep Creek, Takhini River Crossing as well as a variety of rural areas north, south, and west of Whitehorse.
Yukon Electrical generates and distributes its own electricity in Old Crow, Beaver Creek, Destruction Bay, Burwash Landing, Upper Liard, Lower Post, Watson Lake and Swift River. Yukon Electrical has a customer service office in Whitehorse and Watson Lake and plant operators in nine communities. In addition to the fossil fuel-fired generating plants Yukon Electrical also owns and operates the Fish Lake Hydro plant, on the outskirts of Whitehorse. Built in 1950, the 1.3 mega watt Fish Lake hydro plant remains a steady contributor of power to the Whitehorse-Aishihik-Faro (WAF) transmission system.
Yukon Electrical Company Limited 100 – 1100 1st Avenue Whitehorse, YT Y1A 3T4 867-633-7000 1-800-661-0513 Fax: 867-668-6692