Manitoba Hydro plans to make 1,760 more megawatts of electricity — more than a quarter of its existing generating capacity — available to consumers within 10 years through a combination of energy-saving measures and new infrastructure.

On Thursday, Hydro published some of the details of its forthcoming integrated resource plan, which lays out how the provincial Crown corporation plans to stave off a midwinter energy shortage expected as soon as 2029 .

A two-page "road map" toward that goal calls for the construction of new infrastructure capable of increasing Manitoba’s generating capacity by 900 megawatts by 2035.

This includes previously announced plans to build three new natural gas turbines in Brandon, new wind farms built by Indigenous-led private companies, improvements to ex

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