Electrical & Mechanical Engineering in Hamilton.

Alectra Utilities Corporation

Alectra's company overview lists Hamilton among the 17 communities it serves.

Alectra's Conditions of Service list Hamilton, Dundas and Stoney Creek within its licensed service area and refer to its distribution licence for exact boundaries.

The City of Hamilton's building permit requirements page lists both Alectra Utilities and Hydro One as electrical contacts for service clearances and tells applicants to contact their own provider.

Alectra's Conditions of Service say customers must apply in writing for new or upgraded services and consult Alectra on supply availability, voltage, service location and metering before designing a service.

Alectra has applied to the Ontario Energy Board to merge its legacy rate zones into a single Alectra-wide rate zone starting in 2027.

Rate zone: Horizon Rate Zone.

What to prepare

• An online application through the Alectra Utilities New Connections Portal
• Project details and expected project timing
• Customer and electrical contractor details, plus property owner information
• Technical requirements for the service, with electrical drawings or site plans where needed
• For generator installations, technical specifications submitted with the application
• For service upgrades, an Alectra account in good standing
• An ESA inspection: Alectra must receive the Electrical Safety Authority's connection authorization before connecting or reconnecting a service

Make a Service Request (alectrautilities.com)

Building Division (City of Hamilton)

Online applications: City of Hamilton Customer Portal, accessed through my.hamilton.ca (Permitting & Inspections).

Before applying, a designer can ask for the City's Ontario Building Code Pre-Consultation, a meeting with staff to review specific Code requirements. The City's Zoning Compliance Review in support of a building permit application checks a proposal in detail against the applicable zoning by-law and returns a Zoning Compliance Letter with stamped drawings; the City notes it may be required for certain properties before a permit application.

Under the submission standards on the City's Building Permit Application Requirements page, multi-residential (3+ units) and non-residential applications group drawings by discipline, each discipline in its own PDF (for example mechanical sheets M101, M102). Files must be vector-based and unsecured, with layers flattened, comments and markups removed and drawings in black and white, and resubmitted files carry a version number in the file name.

Hamilton is designated as a site plan control area, and final site plan approval is needed before a building permit application for major renovations, additions or new construction for industrial, institutional, commercial, multiple residential and agricultural greenhouse uses. A Formal Consultation before the site plan application is recommended but, as the City notes, no longer mandatory.

Building permit information (hamilton.ca)