Transmission and Distribution: AREVA delivers Hydro
One Networks’ Energy Management System upgrade
New EMS helps secure power reliability and fulfill regulatory requirements in
Ontario, Canada
PARIS, February 25, 2010
AREVA T&D Press Office
AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Division has delivered an important system upgrade to
Hydro One Networks Inc., the largest operating subsidiary of Hydro One Inc., which is wholly owned by
the Canadian Province of Ontario. The new energy management system (EMS) is based on AREVA
T&D’s renowned e-terra™ application suite and is running at Hydro One’s primary control center in
Barrie, Ontario and its backup control center in Richview, a neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario. The
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system monitors and controls 97 per cent of Ontario's electricity transmission system, covering over 1
million square kilometers.
Hydro One now benefits from all the features of e-terraplatform version 2.5, which includes essential
elements to help utilities comply with North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC’s) Critical
Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards. NERC CIP standards define the minimum requirements to
enable a reliable electrical system and all North American organizations involved with the electrical
network are subject to them.
“At Hydro One we believe we must embrace technology and innovation and forge intelligent
partnerships to deliver the most value to our customers and shareholder,” said Mike Winters, CIO at
Hydro One Networks. “For nine years now, we have considered AREVA T&D as much our partner, as
our supplier.”
“Our software upgrades are designed to preserve our customers’ investments in their critical systems.
We are extremely proud of the technology which is developed and delivered out of our Worldwide
Center of Excellence for all Network Management Solutions in Redmond, WA in the USA,” added
Jean-Michel Cornille, Executive Vice President, AREVA T&D Automation.
MORE ABOUT HYDRO ONE
Hydro One delivers electricity safely, reliably and responsibly to homes and businesses across the
province of Ontario and owns and operates Ontario's 29,000 km high-voltage transmission network that
delivers electricity to large industrial customers and municipal utilities, and a 123,000 km low-voltage
distribution system that serves about 1.3 million end-use customers and smaller municipal utilities in the
province. Hydro One is wholly owned by the Province of Ontario. www.HydroOne.com
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