An LED streetlight conversion that began in July and will continue until June 2020 is expected to reduce energy usage by 55% and save the City of Ottawa $4 million annually — equivalent to removing 2,500 homes from the electricity grid…
Hydro One Ltd. has appointed Paul H. Barry to the role of Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, and Greg Kiraly to the role of Chief Operating Officer…
Mohammed Sirtaj has been promoted to Acting Industrial Sales Team Leader, Northern Alberta, Electrical Canada, Electrical Sector. Daryl Simard has also been promoted to Service Sales Specialist…
Prateek (Prat) Sharma joins the Intermatic Canada Team as an Application Specialist. Sharma has over 10 years of experience as a sales and applications engineer with various companies in Canada’s electrical Industry…
Eaton has announced a recall of 30A General Duty 2 and 3 Pole Switches made between May 3 and July 19, 2016. The switches contain non-conforming line/load lugs that may cause overheating…
Canadian powerline contractor Valard has implemented a new organizational structure as a means of achieving operational efficiencies. Changes of note include…
One lucky member of EFC’s Young Professionals Network based in Ontario will win a scholarship for Dale Carnegie’s 8-week course, “Skills for Success” — a $1,995 value…
RC Lighting has appointed Adanac Sales as its new sales agent for the British Columbia region, effective September 1 (Fort St. John and Cranbrook will remain within the Alberta territory)…
The Ontario Electrical Safety Authority will recognize Electro-Federation Canada and its joint section task force members for helping to expand arc fault protection in the Canadian Electrical Code…
Green Energy Doors Open, a showcase of individual, community, and commercial sustainable energy projects, takes place for the first time in BC September 9-11, simultaneously with events in Alberta and Ontario…
Energere has won a $28 million contract to implement a smart public lighting management system for the City of Montreal. The project will create an infrastructure capable of controlling 135,000 luminaires…
After a 27-day sea trial, staff at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) and crew members of the Dominion Victory have successfully recovered an underwater monitoring platform, known as FAST-1…
A Haida Gwaii company has developed a technology that may one day provide power to parts of Haida Gwaii, BC by harnessing the energy from tides, reports the CBC. Field testing of a prototype in Juskatla Narrows will last three months…
Ontario Power Generation has named Shadrak Gobert and Stephanie Seymour as the 2016 recipients of the OPG John Wesley Beaver (JWB) Memorial Student Awards. Both students are aiming for careers in renewable energy…
An LED streetlight conversation program already underway in Calgary, Alberta is expected to save the city $6 million annually in maintenance costs. Once the program is complete, over 80,000 LED lights will have been installed, reducing energy consumption by half…
The controllability and customizability that LED technologies offer is expected to spur adoption rates of LEDs and of lighting-only home networks that allow users to control home lighting systems with their smartphones, tablets, or personal computers, says Navigant Research…
This project is funded [in part] by the Government of Canada.
Ce projet est financé [en partie] par le gouvernement du Canada.
