Hydro Ottawa Limited

3025 Albion Rd. N, Box 8700, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Electric Power

Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc. (Hydro Ottawa) owns and operates two subsidiary companies, Hydro Ottawa Limited and Energy Ottawa Inc. Hydro Ottawa Limited is the third largest municipally owned electrical utility in Ontario serving more than 325,000 customers in the City of Ottawa and the Village of Casselman. Energy Ottawa Inc., Ottawa's largest producer of green power, generates renewable energy and provides commercial energy management services. 

Our mission is to create long-term value for our shareholder, benefiting our customers and the communities we serve. Hydro Ottawa is both a community asset and an investment for our shareholder, the City of Ottawa. As a community asset, our goal is to provide effective, efficient and reliable service to our customers. As an investment, our goal is to provide stable, reliable and growing returns to our shareholder. 

As company that delivers essential services to Ottawa residents - and whose predecessor companies have done so for more than 100 years - contributing to the well-being of our community has always been part of our core mandate. 

We do so by providing a reliable and safe supply of electricity, increasing the supply of renewable energy and respecting the environment in our work; but our commitment also goes beyond our day to day operations. We are active in our community promoting conservation and demand management, educating children and youth about electricity safety, helping to mitigate the impact of energy costs for those in need, and making other contributions to the quality of life in Ottawa. 

In addition to being named in 2012 as Large Company of the Year by the Ontario Energy Association, we are proud of having consistently been recognized as one of the National Capital Region’s Top Employers, one of Canada’s Greenest Employers, and one the Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces™ in Canada. 

Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc. (Hydro Ottawa) is wholly-owned by the City of Ottawa and governed by an independent Board of Directors appointed by its shareholder. The company’s core businesses are electricity distribution, renewable energy generation and energy conservation and management services. Hydro Ottawa owns and operates two subsidiary companies.

Hydro Ottawa Limited

  • is a regulated electricity distribution company operating in the City of Ottawa and the Village of Casselman;
  • has 323,910 total customers representing 296,036 residential, 24,563 small commercial and 3,311 large commercial users;
  • is the largest local distribution company in eastern Ontario and the third-largest municipally-owned LDC in the province;
  • has a 1,100 square kilometre service area;
  • delivered 7,430 gigawatt hours of electricity in 2014, representing 6.2 percent of the electricity distributed province wide (119,969 gigawatt hours);
  • had a maximum load of 1,321 MW with an average of 948 MW in 2015;
  • has a service territory that includes 667 microFIT and 89 FIT generators;
  • delivered electricity service to more than 58,000 streetlights;
  • will fund capital investments of more than half a billion dollars over the course of 2016 to 2020; and
  • accounts for approximately 88 percent of the Corporation’s capital assets and 89 percent of revenues.

Energy Ottawa Inc.

  • is a provider of commercial energy management services;
  • is the largest municipally-owned producer of green power in Ontario;
  • generated 337 gigawatt hours of electricity in 2015;
  • operates 16 run-of-the-river hydroelectric facilities, including six stations in Ottawa’s downtown core;
  • has a hydroelectric generation capacity of 38 megawatts at Chaudière Falls;
  • holds interests in two landfill gas-to-energy joint ventures at the Trail Road landfill site and the Laflèche landfill site in Moose Creek, Ontario;
  • has landfill gas-to-energy generation capacity of 10.2 megawatts through joint ventures at the Trail Road Landfill in Ottawa and Laflèche Landfill in Moose Creek, Ontario;
  • owns ten hydroelectric stations located in Eastern Ontario and nearby New York State that have a total combined output of 31 megawatts; and
  • has a total generation capacity of more than 79 megawatts annually, which is enough to power 62,000 homes.

Employees

  • Number of employees: 700

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Hydro Ottawa transports power from the provincial electricity grid and distributes it across its service territory. The distribution network includes:

  • 84 Hydro Ottawa and 5 Hydro One distribution stations;
  • 170 station class transformers;
  • 2,854 kilometres of underground cable;
  • 2,726 kilometres of overhead lines;
  • 35,766 distribution transformers;
  • 48,183 hydro poles.
Company Details
Company NameHydro Ottawa Limited
Business CategoryElectric Power
Address3025 Albion Rd. N
Box 8700
Ottawa
Ontario
Canada
ZIP: K1G 3S4
PresidentNA
Year Established2000
Employees1000
MembershipsNA
Hours of OperationNA
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