Community and Industry Partnerships

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Community and industry partnerships

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Post-Merger Integration
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Growth & Innovation
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Empowering Communities
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Grid Resiliency

Collaboration is the secret sauce that’s helping to build growth and opportunity across Waterloo Region. Our partnerships with community organizations, industry partners and technological leaders drive us forward and encourage continuous improvement. As we address the issues of the future, we’ll continue to lean on partners and organizations to help us find new solutions and better ways of solving tough challenges.

GridSmartCity is a cooperative of 18 LDCs, with Enova serving as the largest member by both customer base and assets under management.  The cooperative’s members manage approximately $3.5 billion in assets and serve 935,000 customers in 65 communities.

GridSmartCity members share resources, insights and systems that help run more intelligent companies while advancing innovation, reliability and efficiency across Ontario’s electricity grid.

Enova employees play a pivotal role at GridSmartCity, serving on the cooperative’s seven working groups and boards and sharing ideas and expertise to benefit all functional areas.

Learn more at gridsmartcity.com

The Electricity Distributors Association (EDA) represents local hydro utilities, the part of our electricity system closest to customers. The EDA draws together a broad community of LDCs, associations, LDC affiliate companies and commercial enterprises that do business with utilities, providing opportunities for information sharing and collaboration across the sector. The EDA’s dynamic team collaborates with industry and subject-matter experts to support member business success through advocacy, policy analysis and a broad range of opportunities for learning and networking.

Our employees sit on each of the EDA’s seven committees and share expertise, best practices, and ideas with other member LDCs.

Learn more at eda-on.ca

WR Community Energy is a collaborative initiative between the Region of Waterloo, its urban municipalities and local utilities created to lead the implementation of Waterloo Region’s Community Energy Investment Strategy and to steward energy transition in our community.

The Governance Committee or WRC, Working Groups and staff initiate and support projects to improve and sustain Waterloo Region’s economic competitiveness and quality of life through the coordination of targeted energy investments in three Priority Areas – Buildings, Energy Generation and Energy Literacy. 

Enova plays an integral role in the initiative, by serving on the Governance Committee and working groups and is a funding member of the organization. 

Learn more at WR Community Energy at wrcommunityenergy.ca

We're also proud members of:

  • Sustainable Waterloo Region
  • Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative
  • Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce
  • ClimateActionWR
  • Association of Electrical Utility Safety Professionals
  • Utilities Standards Forum
  • Association of Energy Service Professionals
  • Survalent SmartVU OMS Users Group
  • Smart Grid Innovation Network
  • Infrastructure Health & Safety Association Labour-Management Network

Fault Location, Isolation and Service Restoration Project (FLISR)

FLISR allows SCADA-controllable devices to automatically activate when a fault is detected. This activation automatically reroutes power to restore as many customers as quickly as possible after an outage. Later this year, the system will also monitor the network for sudden loss of voltage and attempt to isolate the cause and reroute power to as many customers affected as possible.

For more information on FLISR and its impact on reducing outage minutes across Enova’s service territory, visit enovapower.com/innovation.