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Transmission towers and distribution hydro poles run along a rural road in South-Nepean

Power planning for the future: Near and far(haven)

Barrhaven...or as some locals affectionately call it: Far Haven, was once a small rural neighbourhood in the City of Nepean

Cars and trucks drive on a busy highway covered with smog

The coalition to end coal in Ontario

It wasn’t that long ago that smog warnings, acid rain and air pollution caused a host of environmental and human health prob

Aerial view of Chaudière Falls hydroelectric site

Discover Chaudière Falls: Where Ottawa’s past and future unite

For more than a century, one of our National Capital Region’s most beautiful and sacred sites was industrialized, fenced off

substation

The (not so) secret life of power stations

In case you’ve ever walked, biked or driven past one of our substations, peered through the chainlink fencing, and wondered,

Pollinator meadow with various flowers and plants in a utility corridor with hydro towers and poles

Hydro Ottawa’s pollinator meadow is for the birds (and the bees)

Let me tell you about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and...utilities? 

crew-safety

Keeping you and our crews safe

Hydro Ottawa crews work around the clock, year-round, and in many neighbourhoods across our city, to safely restore power or

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