Grid Operations and Maintenance; Related Communications Services
By 2009, the publicly owned electrical utilities in the neighbouring provinces of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador (NB Power and Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro) had significantly upgraded their facilities to so-called "smart grids" with 100-megabit networks. These supported real time testing and, in Newfoundland and Labrador, let that province's utility also deliver voice and data services to customers. Aliant XWave, IT contractor to both, touted its achievements in these other Atlantic provinces as being more advanced than the many other utilities it worked with. NS Power, by contrast, had no such overarching plan and fell under increasing criticism, especially during the 2009 election for that.
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