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Hydro One preparations for Hurricane Isabel

Toronto, September 18, 2003 - Hydro One Networks has all available crews on standby in anticipation of damage to its power delivery system by Hurricane Isabel. Staff are closely monitoring weather conditions, and high winds and heavy rain are expected to hit Ontario Friday afternoon.

Regional "command" posts can be activated on a moment's notice and will co-ordinate restoration efforts in hard-hit areas. Lines, forestry and station maintenance crews are ready to be deployed from across Hydro One's system, and sufficient reserves of replacement equipment and materiel (e.g. poles, transformers, insulators, and conductor) are in place for distribution.

The public is advised to stay well away from downed power lines.

Hydro One Inc. is a holding company that operates through its subsidiaries in electricity transmission and distribution and telecom businesses. Its largest subsidiary, Hydro One Networks, owns and operates Ontario's 28,400 kilometre high-voltage transmission network that delivers electricity to large industrial customers and municipal utilities, and a 122,000 kilometre low-voltage distribution system that serves about 1.2 million end-use customers and smaller municipal utilities in the province. Hydro One is wholly owned by the Ontario Government

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For more information, contact Hydro One Media Relations 24 hours a day at
1-877-506-7584 (toll-free in Ontario only) or 416-345-6868.