"We wanted to make ourselves independent of conventional sources, so we decided to try to find a hydroelectric site."

Plenty of hydroelectric sites.

Mr. Besha, 55, already a collector of vintage cars, said his company had developed and refurbished more than a dozen hydroelectric sites around the country.

But by the early 1950s, most large hydroelectric sites were already under development and new power sources were required to meet the province's growing appetite for electricity.

It is also negotiating with Newfoundland to develop two big hydroelectric sites on the lower Churchill River in Labrador.

This was enormously important to Canada, which had numerous potential hydroelectric sites in remote locations.

As most of the readily developed hydroelectric sites were exploited, the corporation expanded into building first coal fired generation and then nuclear power.

As with most first world countries, the vast majority of commercially viable hydroelectric sites in Finland have already been developed.

Most of the good hydroelectric sites have already been taken and environmentalists are battling to save the last wild stretches of river from the dam builders.

Generators (such as hydroelectric sites) can be located far from the loads.