your home town utility

Maintaining a reliable power distribution system that you can count on. Meeting your needs and pursuing new technologies to promise you today, and the generation of tomorrow, a future of clean, reliable energy.

About Us

Erie Thames Powerlines launched in July 2000 in the heart of Southwestern Ontario, representing the amalgamation of seven Public Utilities Commissions (PUCs) within the municipalities of Port Stanley, Aylmer, Belmont, Ingersoll, Thamesford, Otterville, Norwich, Burgessville, Beachville, Embro and Tavistock. In 2011, Clinton, Mitchell and Dublin, Ontario were added to our service territory. We are a licensed distribution company (LDC) providing efficient delivery of electricity, billing and maintenance service to over 18,000 residential and commercial customers within our licensed boundaries.

OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM

Chris White - President

Pat Zimmer - Regulatory & Executive Assistant

Graig Pettit - Manager of Finance & Regulatory Affairs

Chuck deJong, C.E.T.- Manager of Engineering & Technology

Scott Brooks - Operations Manager

Kim Ellis - Customer Solutions Manager

Our Mission

As Your Home Town Utility we provide you, our valued customers, with safe and reliable power line services. Our mission and pledge to our customers is to provide exceptional, cost effective electrical service. We distribute and maintain the flow of electricity to our customers from Ontario's energy grid. We take pride in providing our customers with knowledgeable staff and a dependable and reliable energy distribution system.

Proudly Committed to Earth Hour

Your home

Manage My Account — I'm Moving — Explain My Bill — Planning Electrical Upgrade

Your business

Efficient Online Billing — Current Rates — Manage Energy Costs — Starting a Renovation

Energy Conservation

Conservation Programs

Our company

Service Territory — Our Mission — At Your School — In Your Community

Outage Notification

Eco Living Tips

Make the switch!

Do your laundry in cold water to save your clothes and save on energy.

85-90% of the energy used during warm and hot water laundry loads goes towards heating the water. Switch to cold water and you use less energy, your clothes last longer and colours stay brilliant!