Ontario’s utilities sector is a serious economic engine: it employed 59,500 people and contributed CAD 16.1 billion to GDP in 2024, with demand for skilled labour expected to stay strong through 2025–2027. Nationally, Canada’s electricity sector is projected to need roughly 28,000 new workers over the next decade — about a quarter of the current workforce — driven by retirements and grid expansion.
Modernizing the grid takes a broad mix of talent: skilled electricians and line technicians, power-systems engineers, IT and smart-grid technologists, and project managers and safety supervisors. As the system becomes more digital, the overlap between traditional transmission work and data-driven operation only grows.
The constraint is rarely demand — it is the pipeline. Closing the gap means apprenticeships, certifications and on-the-job training, often in partnership with technical colleges and universities, so qualified people are ready as projects ramp up.
Knowledge transfer matters as much as headcount. Experienced practitioners passing on hard-won expertise is how a sector scales safely.
As it grows, PrimeVolt Energy Systems will create specialist roles, contract opportunities and training pathways — transferring two decades of transmission and grid expertise into Ontario’s workforce, and supporting a more skilled, safety-focused energy sector.
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