#Canada

Canada: Ameresco has completed a 4 MW, 16 MWh energy storage project for Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO).

Canada: Hydro One, with Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation announced the completion of the Niagara Reinforcement Line.

Valard Construction was selected by Wataynikaneyap Power LP to provide engineering, procurement and construction solutions for the Wataynikaneyap Transmission Project in Canada.

Canada: A lightning strike caused a fire in a transformer in British Colombia, Canada.

Northern Transformer has received a repayable contribution of $3 M from FedDev Ontario to help implement ‘clean’ technologies and reduce its environmental footprint.

The Ponoka County area experienced power outages of varying lengths during the late afternoon on Wednesday due to lightning and thunderstorm after a transformer was struck by lightning and caught fire.

Canada: Amarjeet Sohi, Canada’s minister of natural resources, confirmed that the $453 M Manitoba-Minnesota Transmission Project has been approved.

Canada: Hydro One is making a $40 million investment over four years to improve infrastructure and accommodate future growth for the Sault Ste. Marie region.

Canada: A $260 M, 200 km transmission line project from Pasqua to Swift Current is now complete.

Canada: GE’s Grid Solutions business won a contract to perform key upgrades on Hydro Quebec’s Montagnais substation’s protection and control systems.

Canada, Toronto: A transformer explosion triggered a power surge in Toronto, sparking fires and knocking out power to some homes.

Delta-X Research announce release of its innovative technology called Reliability-based Dissolved Gas Analysis, dissolved gas analysis test data.

The federal government and BC Hydro have announced a project to expand transmission lines to meet the Peace area’s growing industrial and development demands.

Canada, Ontario: Canadian transformer manufacturer E Craftsmen Corporation is celebrating 60 years of design and manufacture of custom transformers and inductors in the City of Waterloo, Ontario.

Canada, Ontario: The Ontario government has approved the construction of a wind farm on Amherst Island in Lake Ontario, which is internationally designated as an Important Bird Area, and known as the owl capital of North America.

Canada, Ontario: The power plant that heats and cools much of downtown London, a city in Ontario, Canada, while generating power is in for a major expansion.

Mayor Dwight Lethbridge worries 200-tonne transformers will damage town roads

Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador: The mayor of Cartwright, a Sandwich Bay community in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada says his town should be compensated for the role it will play in the Muskrat Falls project as Nalcor finalizes plans to ship seven 200-tonne transformers to the work site by way of the port in that community.

Canada, Quebec: Canadian institutional fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), in association with Mexican consortium CKD, plans to invest $1.83 billion in energy infrastructure projects in Mexico.

Canada, Ontario: Cam Tran Co., Canadian electrical transformer manufacturer and refurbisher, is working to scale up with a $3 million expansion project.

Canada, British Columbia: BC Hydro has completed the $23 million (CAD 32 million) Buckley Bay substation which will help meet the growing electricity needs of the Comox Valley.

Canada, British Columbia: Two new power transformers have been delivered to the site of the Big Bend substation being built by BC Hydro in south Burnaby, British Columbia.

Canada, British Columbia: BC Hydro has completed a major $47m expansion of the George Tripp substation in Victoria, BC, an investment forming part of a major capital plan for the improvement of the electricity infrastructure on the Vancouver Island.

Canada, Saskatchewan: SaskPower will be spending $82.5 million (CAD108 million) in the coming months to upgrade the provincial power grid in order to decrease the number of unplanned power outages, one third of which are the result of aging infrastructure.

Canada, Saskatchewan: SaskPower has added a second power transformer to its Fleet Street substation in the city of Regina to accommodate recent and future load growth in the eastern and northern parts of the city.