The Point Tupper Generating Station is a 150 MW Canadian electrical generating station located in the community of Point Tupper in Nova Scotia’s Richmond County.A thermal generating station Point Tupper was opened in 1973 by then-provincial Crown corporation Nova Scotia Power Corporation on Peebles Point on the Strait of Canso immediately south of the community of Point Tupper. It was originally designed to burn oil later coal. As of 2013 it also burns bio-fuel in the form of wood chips.
