Hydro One announces additional support for its customers during COVID-19 pandemic Hydro One announces additional support for its customers during COVID-19 pandemic; suspends late payments for all customers and returns approximately $5M in security deposits to businesses. Read more
COVID-19 Information CECA has temporarily removed our informational banners from the home page and added information about the COVID-19 pandemic. We will continue to add additional information and links to important resources as they become available. As always, CECA recommends the Public Health Agency of Canada website on COVID-19 for the latest updates and news. We have posted links to posters that can be printed to help educate [...]
U of T Student Chapter Gearing up for the 2020 Green Energy Challenge CECA U of T is gearing up for our sixth round of the ELECTRI International/NECA Green Energy Challenge (GEC)! This year, they will be building on their second place finish from the 2019 GEC with new team members and a new client. For more information, please check out their blog [...]
CECA U of T Hosts 2020 Building Case Competition From L to R: Niloufar Ghaffari (CECA UofT Exec), Rose Zhang (CECA UofT Exec), Paul Go (participant), Bo Zhao (participant), Pavani Perera (CECA UofT Exec), Ziyi Wang (participant), Jiating Lou (participant), Professor Brenda McCabe (faculty advisor), Greg Penuik (IESO), Professor Ian Sinclair, Noah Cassidy (CECA UofT Exec), Gregg Whitty (CECA) The CECA U of T Student Chapter [...]
Leadership Excellence Award 2020 NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN! Established in 2016, the NETCO Leadership Excellence Award honours an individual for their outstanding contributions to apprenticeship training and continuing electrical training. The award is presented nationally every year during the National Training Conference to an individual with a NETCO training partner organization. Recipients of the Leadership Excellence Award demonstrate inspirational leadership to others. The Leadership Excellence Award [...]
CEC 2018 Adoption Table Location Changes Changes have been made to the CECA website so that the CEC 2018 Code Adopter list can always be found in the Resources section of the website. You will be able to see who is using which version of code by going to Resources>CEC 2018 Code Table. When the table has been updated, we will post a news post to [...]
Print Editions of 2019-2020 Publications Now Available Print Editions of 2019-2020 Publications now available NECA announced that the 2019-2020 editions of the NECA Manual of Labor Units (4090-19) and Tool & Equipment Rental Schedule (5065-19) publications were available in print and PDF formats. The CD version will be available sometime in January 2020. You can order your copy from the publications section on the CECA website. [...]
CEC 2018 Adoption Each province or territory determines for itself which edition of the Canadian Electrical Code (CEC), Part I is referenced in its regulation, sometimes with amendments, depending on the situation. This table indicates the 2018 CE Code, Part I adoption across Canada. It is recommended to contact the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) to confirm which edition is in force. You may need to [...]
NTCCC Takes Out Prompt Payment Ad in Hill Times The latest Prompt Payment action taken by NTCCC was to take out a full page ad in the Parliament Hill Newspaper, The Hill Times. It was in the Oct 24 paper. The feedback we have received indicates that the add caused considerable attention on the Hill but we still have more work to do. We have more [...]
ELECTRI International Releases Low Voltage Systems Report ELECTRI International has released a new report titled The Electrical Contractor as the Integrator, which is now available to be viewed or downloaded free of charge from the ELECTRI website, electri.org. The low voltage market is more profitable than the traditional electrical market, in some cases twice as profitable or greater. This key finding comes from ELECTRI International research evaluating contractors who perform [...]
