Hydro One Case Study: Creating Investment Plans that Build Stakeholder Trust

As the largest electricity transmission and distribution service provider in Ontario, Canada, Hydro One distributes electricity to almost 1.5​ million residential and business customers, covering approximately 75% of the province’s geographic area.

In 2012, Hydro One partnered with Copperleaf^® to transform its Asset Investment Planning (AIP) and optimization processes in response to requirements from the provincial regulator, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB). The Copperleaf solution was implemented to establish a more rigorous and consistent approach to investment planning, decision-making, and risk management across Hydro One’s capital and operational expenditures.

In this video, Sara Aslanbeigi, Senior Manager, Investment Management at Hydro One, describes the benefits of having a single enterprise-wide system to capture and assess all proposed business cases and develop what-if scenarios to explore multiple investment strategies. These capabilities have enabled Hydro One to create more robust, defensible long-term plans and make data-driven investment decisions that are prudent for customers.

I think transparency goes a long way into ensuring that we’re doing the right job of being equitable across the organization and we’re helping everyone put the plan together in a way that they support as well— which gives confidence and transparency to the organization and from our perspective, to our regulator.

Sara Aslanbeigi
Senior Manager, Investment Management
Hydro One

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