List of Canadian electric utilities

This is a list of the electric utilities in Canada.

List of electric utilities by size

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Rank Company Founded Established Type Head office Customers Transmission (km) Capacity (MW) Generation (GWh) Revenue ($M) Ref
1. Hydro-Québec 1944 Public, integrated  Quebec 4,316,914 34,361 37,310 230,795 14,370 [1][note 1]
2. Hydro One 1906 1998 Public, Private, T & D  Ontario 1,333,920 28,924 — — 4,744 [2]
3. Ontario Power Generation 1999 Public, generation  Ontario — — 21,729 92,500 5,640 [3]
4. BC Hydro 1897 1961 Public, integrated  British Columbia 4,000,000 18,000 12,097 43,755 3,822 [4]
5. Alectra Utilities 2017 Municipal, integrated  Ontario 1,076,538 — - - 3,954 [5][6][7][8]
6. ENMAX 1905 Municipal, integrated  Alberta 836,000 299[9] 1721[10] — 3,160.1 [11][note 2]
7. TransAlta 1911 Investor-owned, generation  Alberta — — 8,775 45,736 2,770 [12]
8. Toronto Hydro 1911 1998 Municipal, T & D  Ontario 761,000 — — — 2,461.7 [13]
9. ATCO 1947 Private, integrated  Alberta 233,100 2,732 2,443.1 [14][note 3]
10. Bruce Power 2001 Private, generation  Ontario — — 6,300 34,600 2,380 [15]
11. EPCOR 1996 Municipal, T & D  Alberta 334,000 203 — — 2,008 [16][note 4]
12. Capital Power Corporation 1891 Private, generation  Alberta — — 3,654 7,015 1,008 [17][note 5]
13. Manitoba Hydro 1873 1961 Public, integrated  Manitoba 532,359 11,700 5,511 33,974 1,599 [18][note 2]
14. NB Power 1880 1920 Public, integrated  New Brunswick 335,513 6,801 3,297 14,418 1,712 [19][note 6]
15. SaskPower 1929 Public, integrated  Saskatchewan 467,329 12,404 3,840 19,864 1,459 [20]
16. Nova Scotia Power 1919 1972 Private, integrated  Nova Scotia 486,000 5,000 2,293 12,092 1,188.1 [21]
17. Hydro Ottawa 1880 2000 Municipal, distribution  Ontario 296,000 — 14 150 754.5 [22]
18. Enova Power 2022 Municipal, T & D  Ontario 157,466 3,665 - - - [23]
19. Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro 1954 Public, integrated  Newfoundland and Labrador 36,000 5,048 8,034 36,564 1,013 [24]
20. Saskatoon Light & Power 1906 Municipal, distribution  Saskatchewan 58,600 — — — 120.8 [25]
21. Cornwall Electric 1887 1905 Private, distribution  Ontario 23,800 --- --- --- --- ---

List of electric utilities by province or territory

This is a list of Canadian public and private electric utilities, by province.

 Alberta

Electric Transmission:

Investor Owned:

Municipals:

  • City of Lethbridge Electric Utility
  • ENMAX (formerly City of Calgary Electric System)
  • EPCOR (formerly Edmonton Power Corporation)
  • City of Medicine Hat Electric Utility
  • Town of Ponoka
  • City of Red Deer Electric Light and Power
  • Town of Cardston

Rural Electrification Associations:

  • Battle River Power Cooperative
  • Beaver REA
  • Blue Mountain Power Corp.
  • Borradaile REA
  • Braes REA
  • Claysmore REA
  • Devonia REA
  • Drayton Valley REA
  • Duffield REA
  • EQUS
  • Ermineskin REA
  • Fenn REA
  • Heart River REA
  • Kneehill REA
  • Lindale REA
  • MaKenzie REA
  • Mayerthorpe and District REA
  • Niton REA
  • North Parkland Power
  • Sterling REA
  • Stony Plain REA
  • Tomahawk REA
  • West Liberty REA
  • Willingdon REA


Sold to FortisAlberta:


 British Columbia

Municipals:

 Manitoba

 New Brunswick

Municipals:

  • Town of Perth Andover
  • Energie Edmunston Energy

 Newfoundland and Labrador

 Northwest Territories

 Nova Scotia

  • Nova Scotia Power
  • Antigonish Electric Utility
  • Berwick Electric Light Commission
  • Canso Electric Light Commission
  • Lunenburg Electric Utility
  • Mahone Bay Electric Utility
  • Riverport Electric Light Commission

 Nunavut


 Ontario

Ontario’s electricity distribution consists of multiple local distribution companies (LDCs). Hydro One, a publicly-traded company owned in part by the provincial government, is the largest LDC in the province and services approximately 26 percent of all electricity customers in Ontario.[26]

The other local distribution companies in Ontario may be municipally owned corporations or privately-operated entities, and include:[27]

  • Alectra Utilities, serving: Aurora, Alliston, Barrie, Beeton, Bradford West Gwillimbury, Brampton, Guelph, Hamilton, Markham, Mississauga, Penetanguishene, Richmond Hill, Rockwood, St. Catharines, Thornton, Tottenham, and Vaughan
  • Algoma Power, serving: Algoma
  • Canadian Niagara Power, serving: Fort Erie and Port Colborne
  • Cornwall Electric, serving : Cornwall, South Glengarry, South Stormont, Akwesasne
  • Elexicon Energy, serving: Ajax, Pickering, Whitby, Belleville, Bowmanville, Gravenhurst, Uxbridge and Scugog
  • Energy+, serving: Cambridge, North Dumfries, and Brant
  • Enova Power, serving: Kitchener, Waterloo, Woolwich, Wilmot, and Wellesley
  • EPCOR Utilities, serving: Collingwood, Stayner, Creemore, and Thornbury
  • Festival Hydro, serving: Stratford, St. Mary's, Seaforth, Hensall, Brussels, Zurich and Dashwood
  • Greater Sudbury Hydro, serving: Sudbury and West Nipissing
  • Hydro Ottawa, serving: Ottawa and Casselman
  • London Hydro
  • Oakville Hydro
  • Oshawa Power
  • Synergy North, serving: Kenora and Thunder Bay
  • Toronto Hydro

 Prince Edward Island

 Quebec

 Saskatchewan

 Yukon


See also

Notes

  1. ^ Generation number includes power bought from third-party suppliers.
  2. ^ a b Electricity-related revenues only
  3. ^ Sum of ATCO Utilities and ATCO Energy segments. Includes gas sales and other non-electricity sales.
  4. ^ Excluding Water services.
  5. ^ Six-month results in 2009.
  6. ^ 2008 figures. Most recent data available.

References

  1. ^ Hydro-Québec (March 2019), "Clean energy to power us all - Annual Report 2018" (PDF), Annual Report, Montreal: 96–98, ISBN 978-2-550-83154-9, ISSN 0702-6706, retrieved 2019-05-10
  2. ^ Hydro One (2010), 2009 Management Discussion and Analysis (PDF), Toronto: Hydro One, pp. 68–69, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-11, retrieved 2010-09-18
  3. ^ Ontario Power Generation (2010), Annual Report 2009 (PDF), Toronto, archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-08, retrieved 2010-09-18{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ BC Hydro (2009). BC Hydro 2009 Annual Report (PDF). Vancouver. pp. 114–116. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-02-15. Retrieved 2009-12-22.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ "A Brand New Electricity Company has Come to Brampton". inbrampton. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  6. ^ Fagen, Eric (28 February 2017). "Alectra Inc. Acquires Hydro One Brampton". Marketwired. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Application and Evidence" (PDF). Enersource. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  8. ^ Alectra Utilities Corporation; Guelph Hydro (March 7, 2018). "Alectra Utilities Corporation and Guelph Hydro Electric Systems Inc. — Application for Approval of Consolidation under Section 86 of the Ontario Energy Board Act,1998 and related relief" (PDF). Regulatory Affairs. Guelph Hydro. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
  9. ^ "Transmission and Distribution Lines". www.enmax.com. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  10. ^ "Generation". www.enmax.com. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  11. ^ ENMAX, Annual Report 2012 (PDF), Calgary: ENMAX, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-18, retrieved 2010-09-18
  12. ^ TransAlta (2010), 2009 Annual Report (PDF), Calgary: TransAlta, retrieved 2010-09-18
  13. ^ Toronto Hydro (2010), 2009 Corporate Responsibility Report (PDF), Toronto: Toronto Hydro, retrieved 2010-09-18
  14. ^ ATCO Group, Annual Report 2009 (PDF), Calgary: ATCO Group, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-17, retrieved 2010-09-18
  15. ^ Bruce Power (2010), Focus - 2009 Annual Report (PDF), Bruce Power, retrieved 2010-09-18[permanent dead link]
  16. ^ EPCOR (2010), Annual Report 2009 (PDF), Edmonton: EPCOR, archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-23, retrieved 2010-09-18
  17. ^ Capital Power Corporation (2010), Annual Report 2009 (PDF), Edmonton: Capital Power Corporation, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-08, retrieved 2013-08-13
  18. ^ Manitoba Hydro (2010), Building a Powerful Future: Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board 59th Annual Report For the Year Ended March 31, 2010 (PDF), Winnipeg: Manitoba Hydro, archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2011, retrieved 2010-09-03
  19. ^ NB Power (2008), Annual report 2007-2008 (PDF), Fredericton, pp. 60–61, retrieved 2009-10-29{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  20. ^ SaskPower (2010), Securing tomorrow's energy begins today: SaskPower Annual Report 2009 (PDF), Regina: SaskPower, pp. 93–94, archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-29
  21. ^ Emera (2010), Annual Report 2009, Halifax: Emera, pp. 14–19, retrieved 2010-09-18
  22. ^ Hydro Ottawa Holdings Inc., Annual Report 2009 (PDF), Ottawa: Hydro Ottawa Holdings Inc., retrieved 2010-09-18
  23. ^ Enova Power Corp. (2022). "About Us". Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  24. ^ Nalcor (2021). NL Hydro Annual Report (PDF). St. John's. Retrieved 2021-09-07.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  25. ^ City of Saskatoon, Saskatoon Light & Power (PDF), Saskatoon: Saskatoon Light and Power, retrieved 2010-09-18
  26. ^ "About Us". Hydro One. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
  27. ^ "Find Your Local Distribution Company". Independent Electricity System Operator. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
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