List of Canadian electric utilities explained

This is a list of the electric utilities in Canada.

List of electric utilities by size

Rank	Company	Founded	Established	Type
1.			1944	Public, integrated		4,316,914	34,361	37,310	230,795	14,370	^[1]
2.		1906	1998	Public, Private, T & D		1,333,920	28,924	—	—	4,744
3.			1999	Public, generation		—	—	21,729	92,500	5,640
4.		1897	1961	Public, integrated		4,000,000	18,000	12,097	43,755	3,822	^[2]
5.	Alectra Utilities		2017	Municipal, integrated		1,076,538	—	-	-	3,954	^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6]
6.		1905		Municipal, integrated		836,000	299^[7]	1721^[8]	—	3,160.1
7.		1911		Investor-owned, generation		—	—	8,775	45,736	2,770
8.	Toronto Hydro	1911	1998	Municipal, T & D		761,000	—	—	—	2,461.7
9.		1947		Private, integrated		233,100		2,732		2,443.1	^[9]
10.			2001	Private, generation		—	—	6,300	34,600	2,380
11.			1996	Municipal, T & D		334,000	203	—	—	2,008	^[10]
12.		1891		Private, generation		—	—	3,654	7,015	1,008	^[11]
13.		1873	1961	Public, integrated		532,359	11,700	5,511	33,974	1,599	^[12]
14.		1880	1920	Public, integrated		335,513	6,801	3,297	14,418	1,712	^[13]
15.			1929	Public, integrated		467,329	12,404	3,840	19,864	1,459
16.		1919	1972	Private, integrated		486,000	5,000	2,293	12,092	1,188.1
17.		1880	2000	Municipal, distribution		296,000	—	14	150	754.5
18.			2022	Municipal, T & D		157,466	3,665	-	-	-	^[14]
19.			1954	Public, integrated		36,000	5,048	8,034	42,194	1,359	^[15]
20.		1906		Municipal, distribution		58,600	—	—	—	120.8
21.	Cornwall Electric	1887	1905	Private, distribution		23,800	---	---	---	---	---

List of electric utilities by province or territory

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

Electric Transmission:

• AltaLink

Investor Owned:

• FortisAlberta
• ATCO Electric

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:

• Town of Fort Macleod
• Municipality of Crowsnest Pass
• TransAlta Corporation
• Direct Energy

• BC Hydro
• Columbia Power Corporation
• FortisBC

Municipals:

• Grand Forks Hydro
• Nelson Hydro
• New Westminster
• Penticton
• Summerland

• Manitoba Hydro

• NB Power
• Saint John Energy

Municipals:

• Town of Perth Andover
• Energie Edmunston Energy

• Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro
  • Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation Limited
  • Lower Churchill Development Corporation Limited
• Newfoundland Power

• • Northland Utilities Northwest Territories Power Corporation

• 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

• Qulliq Energy Corporation

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.^[16]

The other local distribution companies in Ontario may be municipally owned corporations or privately-operated entities, and include:^[17]

• 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

• Maritime Electric
• Summerside Electric

• Boralex
• Cartier Wind Energy
• Hydro-Jonquière
• Hydro Magog
• Hydro-Québec
• Hydro-Sherbrooke
• Hydro Westmount
• Innergex Renewable Energy
• Rio Tinto Alcan

• SaskPower
• Saskatoon Light & Power
• Swift Current Light and Power

• ATCO Electric Yukon
• Yukon Energy Corporation

See also

• Electricity sector in Canada
• List of Canadian mobile phone companies
• List of Canadian telephone companies
• List of telephone operating companies
• List of public utilities
• ISO New England
• List of United States electric companies
• Electricity distribution companies by country

Notes and References

1. Generation number includes power bought from third-party suppliers.
2. Book: BC Hydro 2009 Annual Report . BC Hydro . 2009 . Vancouver . 2009-12-22 . 114–116 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100215014743/http://www.bchydro.com/etc/medialib/internet/documents/annual_report/2009_annual_report.Par.0001.File.annual_report_2009.pdf . 2010-02-15 .
3. Web site: A Brand New Electricity Company has Come to Brampton. inbrampton. 18 October 2017. 2 August 2017.
4. Web site: Fagen. Eric. Alectra Inc. Acquires Hydro One Brampton. Marketwired. 18 October 2017. 28 February 2017.
5. Web site: Application and Evidence. Enersource. 18 October 2017. 25 April 2016.
6. Web site: Alectra Utilities Corporation . Guelph Hydro . 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 . Regulatory Affairs . Guelph Hydro . November 6, 2018 . March 7, 2018.
7. Web site: Transmission and Distribution Lines. www.enmax.com. 2019-08-22.
8. Web site: Generation. www.enmax.com. 2019-08-22.
9. Sum of ATCO Utilities and ATCO Energy segments. Includes gas sales and other non-electricity sales.
10. Excluding Water services.
11. Six-month results in 2009.
12. Electricity-related revenues only
13. 2008 figures. Most recent data available.
14. Web site: About Us . Enova Power Corp. . 2022 . 2022-10-11 .
15. Book: [chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://nlhydro.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Hydro-Annual-Report-2022-PDF_FINAL_June29.pdf NL Hydro Annual Report ]. Nalcor . St. John's . 2022 . 2024-07-07 .
16. Web site: About Us . Hydro One . November 26, 2020.
17. Web site: Find Your Local Distribution Company . Independent Electricity System Operator . November 26, 2020.