Driven to provide reliable and innovative energy
and infrastructure services.
OEC specializes in providing integrated services to help clients reach their business objectives nationwide.
Integrated Infrastructure and Energy Services
The OEC group of companies delivers energy and infrastructure services to customers coast to coast. OEC offers innovative products and services aligned with four strategic business lines: infrastructure services, energy services, renewable generation, electricity distribution.
With over 3,000 employees, OEC’s growing team of professionals provide insightful and reliable energy and infrastructure solutions to communities — delivering value for all of our municipal, commercial and residential clients.
Infrastructure Services
OEC’s group of infrastructure companies specializes in concept to completion solutions for utility companies, municipalities and telecommunications. Combining industry knowledge, innovation and integrated services, our team of dedicated professionals provide one point of accountability that encompasses all your infrastructure needs.
OEC’s broad range of infrastructure services include:
- Call and private locates
- Electromagnetic detection
- Ground penetrating radar
- Concrete scanning
- Gas leak surveys
- Corrosion detection
- Site locate management services
- Utility records/mapping updating
- Electrical distribution and fiber optic network design, including route identification and optimization, constructability reviews, and all permitting
- Aerial engineering with pole line design and non-linear structural analysis
- New subdivision design and existing subdivision rehabilitation
- Manhole and vault inspections, retrofitting and design
- Construction verification and as-builts
- Long span design, and highway, rail and waterway permitting
- Survey and land-base, field asset auditing and condition assessment
- Subsurface utility engineering including conduit and duct bank structure design
Architecture, feeder, and distribution designs for buried and aerial copper, coax and fiber optic cables including Fibre to the Home (FTTH) design and engineering, as well as route assessments.
OEC uses a variety of high-density survey data collection technology to ensure time, cost and quality efficiencies.
- Real-time kinematic global positioning system — great for small site surveying with limited risk of exposure to traffic
- 3D scanning — optimal for site surveys requiring advanced detail with a risk of traffic exposure, allowing surveys to be conducted at a safe distance
- Vehicle-based surveying — for large site surveys on road allowances that require advanced detail
- Unmanned aerial vehicles — ideal for off-road or remote areas that require surveying
- GIS-As-A-Service
- Spatial Analysis and Location Intelligence
- Damage Prevention Risk Analysis
- Mobile LiDAR
- MultiViewer Mobile GIS Viewer
- Civil and electrical construction services
- Open trench and trenchless services
- Hydrovac excavating
- Street-light installation, maintenance and refit
- Site restorations
- Customized gas, water and electricity meter reading programs to meet their business cycles
- Secondary meter services
Energy Services
Meter services and solutions for all types of utilities: electricity, water, thermal and gas.
- Accredited meter service provider with over 20 years of experience
- Measurement Canada accredited for meter verification, compliance sampling and inspections
- Certified and experienced employees
- Meter solutions for individual suite metering for multi-tenant projects, retrofit projects or new construction
Renewable Generation
Shaping the communities of tomorrow.
Our solutions are designed to ensure sustainability, efficiency and reliability, backed by a hundred-year legacy of exemplary client service. From the sustainable heating and cooling of buildings to rooftop and solar, hydro power and battery storage, we power progress.
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Electricity Distribution
Powering our community
Oakville Hydro delivers reliable and safe electricity to more than 77,000 individuals, families and businesses in the Town of Oakville.
