Regional electricity utility serving 550,000 Nova Scotia customers
Nova Scotia Power is the dominant electricity provider across Nova Scotia, operating generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure for approximately 550,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The tech stack is heavily operational—Maximo for asset management, ESRI Field Maps for field workforce coordination, Oracle and Salesforce-adjacent tools for back-office operations—reflecting the capital-intensive, regulation-bound nature of utility infrastructure.
Nova Scotia Power has operated as the primary electricity provider in Nova Scotia since 1881, serving approximately 550,000 customers across residential, commercial, and industrial segments. The company operates a full generation, transmission, and distribution network under regulation by the Nova Scotia Energy Board. With over 2,300 employees, the organization manages core challenges around infrastructure safety, distribution reliability, emissions reduction, and cost control. Current project focus spans dam safety management systems, outage planning and storm response, and contractor safety compliance programs.
Primary tools include Maximo (asset/maintenance management), ESRI Field Maps (field operations), Oracle (enterprise systems), Tableau and Power BI (analytics), SharePoint and Smartsheet (collaboration/project management), and GPS/PLC systems for grid operations.
Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company serves the province as its primary electricity provider and is regulated by the Nova Scotia Energy Board.
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