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Home > About Hydro One > Quick Facts
As at December 31, 2008
Our Business
- We are the largest electricity transmission and distribution company
in Ontario, valued at $13.88 billion as measured by total assets.
- We own and operate substantially all of Ontario's electricity transmission
system, accounting for about 96% of Ontario's transmission capacity
as measured by revenues.
- Our distribution system is the largest in Ontario and spans approximately
75% of the province.
- We distribute electricity though our 123,260 circuit km low-voltage
distribution system, serving Ontario's rural areas and municipalities.
- We transmit energy through a 29,039 circuit km high-voltage network.
Transmission lines are overhead except for 275 circuit km of underground
lines in urban areas.
- We own and operate 26 facilities that interconnect to our transmission
system which can accommodate imports of about 4,000 MW and exports of
about 5,800 MW.
- Our transmission system also includes 281 transmission stations.
- Our distribution system also includes 1,015 distribution and regulating
stations.
- Cumulative Smart Meters deployed: see
website
- Our telecommunications business markets dark and lite fibre optic
capacity to telecommunications carriers and commercial customers.
- Number of vehicles/equipment in Fleet: 6,923
Reportable Segments
- Transmission Business
- Distribution Business
- Other Business (primarily represented by the operations of Hydro One Telecom
Inc.)
Our Customers
- Large Industrial Customers: 110
- Remote Communities Served: 20
- Rural and Urban Distribution Customers (homes, farms, seasonal, small
business): approximately 1.3 million
- Local Distribution Companies/Municipal Utilities: 83
- Generators: 218
Our Employees and Pensioners
- Full-time: 5,032 regular employees (in all subsidiaries)
- Non-Regular: 1,880 employees (includes temporary, contract and part-time)
- Pensioners: 7,517
Our Subsidiaries
- Hydro One Networks Inc.
- Hydro One Remote Communities Inc.
- Hydro One Telecom Inc.
- Hydro One Brampton Inc.
Our Electricity
- Total electricity transmitted in 2008: 148.7 TWh*
- All-time System Peak: 27,005 MW** (August
1, 2006)
- 2008 System Peak: 24,195 MW**
- 2007 System Peak: 25,737 MW**
- 2006 System Peak: 27,005 MW**
*148,700,000,000 kilowatt-hours. A 100-watt
light bulb burning for 10 hours would use one kilowatt-hour of energy.
**A megawatt is a measure of instantaneous
demand for electricity and generation needed to meet this demand. One megawatt
equals 1,000 kilowatts
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