page_title: Energy policy of Canada
section_title: Development in Quebec
hierarchical_section_title: Energy policy of Canada / Electricity / Development in Quebec
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le barrage Daniel-Johnson, situé à 214 km au nord de la ville de Baie-Comeau, Québec. Le barrage, construit entre 1962 et 1968 est la pièce maîtresse de l'aménagement électrique Manic-cinq d'Hydro-Québec. Les deux centrales électriques installées à cet endroit ont une puissance installée de 2592 MW English: The Daniel-Johnson Dam, located 214 km north of Baie-Comeau, Quebec. The dam constructed between 1962 and 1968 is the cornerstone of Hydro-Quebec's Manic-cinq hydroelectric complex. The two electric generating stations located there have an installed capacity of 2592 MW.
context_page_description: Canada has access to all main sources of energy including oil and gas, coal, hydropower, biomass, solar, geothermal, wind, marine and nuclear. It is the world's second largest producer of uranium, third largest producer of hydro-electricity, fourth largest natural gas producer, and the fifth largest producer of crude oil. In 2006, only Russia, the People's Republic of China, the United States and Saudi Arabia produce more total energy than Canada.
  The United States is Canada's major trade market for energy products and services. Canada sent around 98% of its total energy exports to the United States in 2015, meaning that Canada is the largest supplier of energy exports to the world's largest economy. Canada also exports significant amounts of uranium and coal to Asia, Europe and Latin America.
  Despite being a net energy exporter, Canada also imports energy products. $24.5 billion of energy products were imported in 2004.
  Canada has a robust energy profile with abundant and diverse resources. The energy and climate policies in Canada are interrelated. These energy and climate policies are implemented at both the federal and provincial government level.
context_section_description: The Quebec government followed the example of Ontario in nationalizing its electrical sector, and in 1944 expropriated the assets of the monopoly Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company to create a new crown corporation called Hydro-Québec. In the post-war era, Hydro-Québec set about expanding and improving the reliability of the electric power grid, and demonstrated it could transmit electricity over long distances at extremely high voltages. Under Maurice Duplessis the Quebec government preferred to leave electrification of rural areas to the Rural Electrification Agency., however after Jean Lesage took power in 1960, Hydro-Québec gained exclusive rights to develop new hydroelectric projects, and in 1963 it began the gradual takeover of all private distributors in the province. Driven by rapidly growing demand, Hydro-Québec built three major hydroelectric complexes in rapid succession: Manicouagan-Outardes on the North Shore of the Saint Lawrence River, and the James Bay Project on La Grande River. This, combined with lower than projected demand, created a surplus of electricity in Quebec, so in 1997, Hydro-Québec began wholesale marketing of electricity to the United States.
caption: The Daniel-Johnson Dam, on the Manicouagan River, was named after Daniel Johnson, Sr., the Quebec premier who died at the site, on September 26, 1968.
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