No changes for Fort Frances residents following hydro dam operator rebrand

By Liam Oliver Neilson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Fort Frances Times The owner of the Fort Frances Generating Station has sold off its U.S. power assets and rebranded Canadian assets from FirstLight to Caelo Energy. Despite this change, Fort Francians can expect the same services with no difference in costs. The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), Caelo Energy’s parent company, announced Tuesday that it had completed the sale of its U.S. operations, including the FirstLight brand under which the Fort Frances plant had been held, to private equity firm Hull Street Energy. “We’ve gone through several name changes of whoever owns and operates that generating station, and there really should be no impact other than people’s email domain changing,” said Joerg Ruppenstein, president and CEO of Fort Frances…

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