Rankine Generating Station

For other hydroelectric generating plants at Niagara Falls, see List of Niagara Falls hydroelectric generating plants.
Rankine Generating Station
LocationOntario, Canada
Nearest cityNiagara Falls
Built1905
Original useHydro generating station
Current useTourist museum on hydro power generation
ArchitectWilliam Grace Company / Hamilton Bridge Works Company
Governing bodyNiagara Parks Commission

The Rankine Generating Station is a former hydro-electric generating station along the Canadian side of the Niagara River in Niagara Falls, Ontario, slightly downstream from the older Toronto Power Generating Station. It was built in for the Canadian Niagara Power Company and named for company's founder William Birch Rankine (b. 1858), a New York City (and later of Niagara Falls) lawyer originally from Geneva, New York who died three days after (in Grafton, New Hampshire) the station opened in 1905 and renamed in 1927.[1] Acquired by Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation in 1950 and in 2002,[2] the station became a wholly owned subsidiary of FortisOntario (and part of Canadian owned Fortis Inc.).[3] It was decommissioned in 2006.

It reopened in July 2021 as a tourist site.[4]

  1. ^ "Niagara Falls - William Birch Rankine Power Station".
  2. ^ FortisOntario, Historical Background, retrieved 28 December 2010
  3. ^ "Distribution and Transmission". Archived from the original on 6 August 2003. Retrieved 16 August 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ Greenwood Davis, Heather (19 May 2021). "Niagara Falls' newest attraction, Niagara Parks Power Station, offers visitors a closer look at its historical power". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 20 May 2021.