List of Canadian electric utilities

This is a list of the electric utilities in Canada.

List of electric utilities by size

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	79,000	12,097	43,755	3,822	[4]
5.	Alectra Utilities		2017	Municipal, integrated	Ontario	1,043,000	—	-	-	-	[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.	Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro		1954	Public, integrated	Newfoundland and Labrador	36,000	5,048	7,289	37,254	930.0	[23]
19.	Saskatoon Light & Power	1906		Municipal, distribution	Saskatchewan	58,600	—	—	—	120.8	[24]
20.	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: 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  British Columbia BC Hydro Columbia Power Corporation FortisBC Municipals: Grand Forks Hydro Nelson Hydro New Westminster Penticton Summerland  Manitoba Manitoba Hydro  New Brunswick NB Power Saint John Energy Municipals: Town of Perth Andover Energie Edmunston Energy  Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation Limited Lower Churchill Development Corporation Limited Newfoundland Power  Northwest Territories Northland Utilities Northwest Territories Power Corporation  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 Qulliq Energy Corporation

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.[25] The other local distribution companies in Ontario may be municipally owned corporations or privately-operated entities, and include:[26] 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 Energy+, serving: Cambridge, North Dumfries, and Brant 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 Kitchener Wilmot Hydro, serving: Kitchener, Baden, New Hamburg, St. Agatha, Petersburg, and Wilmot London Hydro Oakville Hydro Synergy North, serving: Kenora and Thunder Bay Toronto Hydro Waterloo North Hydro, serving: Waterloo, Woolwich, and Wellesley  Prince Edward Island Maritime Electric Summerside Electric  Quebec Boralex Cartier Wind Energy Hydro Magog Hydro-Québec Hydro-Sherbrooke Hydro Westmount Innergex Renewable Energy Rio Tinto Alcan  Saskatchewan SaskPower Saskatoon Light & Power Swift Current Light and Power  Yukon 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

1. Generation number includes power bought from third-party suppliers.
2. 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.

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