THE OTHER EXPORT

摘要

GREG SELINGER WAS BEAMING. On May 25, 2011, the 61-year-old Manitoba premier announced that the province's Crown corporation, Manitoba Hydro, had signed agreements that would see it - starting in 2020 - sell 350 megawatts (MW) of electricity to two separate utilities in neighboring Minnesota and Wisconsin. Those sales, along with a similar deal reached with Northern States Power (now a part of Xcel Energy), meant Manitoba had committed to sell 475 MW of clean hydro power that could bring in $4 billion in revenue over the lifetime of the contracts.