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[edit] Ontario Hydro

Why does Ontario Hydro redirect here? Given that Hydro broke up into five separate entities, shouldn't Ontario Hydro be a disambig with links to all five (rather than redirecting to the second-largest company of the five)? --Nucleusboy 12:39, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I have recreated Ontario Hydro with the history of the company. It has links to the successor companies. Dabbler 14:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
I believe Hydro One is generally the same as Ontario Hydro, the offshoots (ie OPG...etc) were divisions of Ontario Hydro anyways. Someone correct me if i'm wrong. --Aequitas12345 —Preceding comment was added at 19:29, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
You are wrong :-). Legally there was no direct successor to Hydro. In fact OPG is by far the largest the ex Hydro companies (about 14,000 employees), Hydro One has less than half that number. What Hydro One originally kept was the old Ontario Hydro plug logo, since abandoned.
Ontario Hydro was split up according to the various functions so that OPG now operates all the generating stations (except for Bruce Nuclear), Hydro One operates the high voltage distribution system and some local distribution in rural areas and where they bought up local distribution utilities. The IESO operates the System Control Centre, the ESA dos the old Ontario Hydro safety inspections etc. etc. Dabbler 11:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)