Service area
Where we work, and why it matters which town you are in
This region is not one utility with one queue. It is nine distributors across four counties and a district, sitting on ground that goes from Holland Marsh peat to beach sand to Canadian Shield granite inside an hour of driving. Both of those change what your service upgrade costs and how long you wait for it.
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Orillia
A city with its own hydro history and no longer its own hydro utility, and a housing core old enough that the fuse panel question comes up on most streets.
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Midland
A working harbour town with a pre-war core, a deep-water port, and a shoreline of docks and boathouses that fall under their own section of the code.
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Collingwood
Two housing stocks with nothing in common: a shipyard-era grid near the harbour, and subdivisions that went up in the last fifteen years and are already adding car chargers.
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Bracebridge
The seat of Muskoka, where the granite sits close to the surface, the feeders are long, and an outage lasts a good deal longer than it does in town.
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Huntsville
The largest town in Muskoka, with a compact serviced core and a very large ring of lakefront property around it that runs on a different kind of electrical system entirely.
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Parry Sound
The smallest market we cover and the most exposed to the bay, where almost every property question turns out, eventually, to be a question about water, rock or distance.
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Bradford
A commuter town growing fast on the edge of the Holland Marsh, which puts brand new residential work and agricultural three-phase inside the same few kilometres.
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Orangeville
One of the very few communities left around here that still owns its own distribution utility, sitting high on the headwaters where the weather arrives first.
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Innisfil
Lake Simcoe shoreline on one side, rapid subdivision growth on the other, and a town-owned utility that has been unusually active in new distribution technology.
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Wasaga Beach
A town built on sand, with a housing stock that was seasonal and mostly is not any more, and a grounding condition that is the exact opposite of Muskoka and no easier.
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Gravenhurst
The south gate of Muskoka, and the one town in the district on a different utility from its neighbours twenty minutes up the highway.
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Meaford
A shoreline town with an orchard belt behind it, where most of the work is at the end of a long private run rather than anywhere in the town grid.
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Thornbury
A harbour village inside The Blue Mountains where a large share of the housing is a second home, and load has been added to it a good deal faster than capacity.
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Stayner
A village at the centre of a working farm township, where the work divides cleanly between the grid inside town and the three-phase outside it.
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Creemore
A heritage village in the Mad River valley where the buildings are old, the streets are narrow, and what you may do to a facade is not entirely your own decision.
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Penetanguishene
A harbour town at the head of the bay with a long naval history, an old town grid, and a shoreline of docks that mostly predate the rule now governing them.
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Alliston
A manufacturing town where industrial and residential demand sit on the same grid, and compete for the same tradespeople.
Not sure if you're in the area?
Call and ask. If you are outside what Georgian Bay Electric covers we will say so rather than book you in and cancel — and we can usually point you at someone local who does cover it.