ATCO Ontario Brighton Beach natgas plant back

NEW YORK Oct 26 (Reuters) - Atco Ltd (ACOx.TO)/Ontario Power Generation's 580-megawatt Brighton Beach natural gas-fired power station in Ontario returned to service by early Monday, the Independent Electricity System Operator said in a report.

The unit shut by Oct. 23.

The Brighton Beach station, which entered service in 2004, is located in Windsor across the Detroit River from Detroit. The combined-cycle station consists of two 170 MW General Electric Co (GE.N) 7FA gas-fired turbines and one 230 MW GE steam turbine.

One MW powers about 1,000 homes in Ontario.

Coral Energy supplies the gas to the plant and buys the power it produces. A subsidiary of Atco operates the station.

Coral is part of Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell Plc's (RDSa.L) Shell Trading subsidiary.

OPG owns and operates about 22,000 MW of generating capacity and markets power to utilities in Ontario and neighboring U.S. and Canadian electricity markets.

Atco, of Calgary, owns and operates about 5,000 MW of generating capacity in Canada, Britain and Australia, markets energy commodities, and transmits and distributes natural gas to more than a million customers and electricity to almost 200,000 customers in Alberta. (Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by John Picinich)