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Whites Lane Woodstock Microgrid

Current status, energy mix, organizations, suppliers, equipment, controls, reported specifications, and project updates—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations8
System facts21
Sources reviewed10
Evidence reviewed2026-07-20

Whites Lane was a small, grid-connected smart-grid demonstration hosted by Woodstock Hydro in Woodstock, Ontario—not an islandable community microgrid. Its first configuration paired approximately 13.5 kW of solar with a 10 kWh lead-acid battery, smart meters, an EV charging station/Nissan Leaf load, weather and power-quality monitoring, and OutBack power electronics. A second phase led by eCAMION planned a four-module 20 kWh lithium-ion cabinet and Survalent supervisory integration for a cluster described as 16 residential/commercial customers and six buildings. The successive batteries should not be added together as though both remained active.

Research status
The system was installed and being toured as an operating demonstration in May 2015. At that point phase 2 was described as complete in design, with its 20 kWh lithium-ion cabinet due for installation by September 2015 and data/control integration expected in early 2016. Hydro One acquired Woodstock Hydro on October 31, 2015, and completed the utility transition in 2016. Federal and academic catalogues continue to list the historical project, but no public post-2017 source located reports the present PV, battery, EV charger, controller, or customer-cluster condition. Current operation in July 2026 is unverified; the legacy 'Construction' status is obsolete but cannot safely be replaced with 'operational.'
Historical classification
Community
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
43.13051, -80.75873
Evidence note: “Every company” cannot be proven from public material alone. This page lists every organization found in the recovered record and reviewed sources, preserves unknown roles, and explicitly marks undisclosed controller or equipment details.
Report missing evidenceResearch methodology

Project delivery

Who was involved in Whites Lane Woodstock Microgrid?

8 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

Arntjen Solar

Solar/project technology partner named in the original overview and later demonstration coverage; accessible sources do not expose a module bill of materials. [9][3]

Organization

eCAMION Inc.

Led the Ontario Smart Grid Fund application and phase-2 storage work, supplying the planned lithium-ion cabinet and its local control system. [3][4][7]

Organization

Elster Electricity Metering / Sun Country Highway

Elster supplied bidirectional smart-meter technology and Sun Country Highway participated on the EV-charging side; exact equipment models were not disclosed. [3]

Organization

Hydro One Inc. / Hydro One Networks Inc.

Acquired Woodstock Hydro and its distribution assets on October 31, 2015. No located Hydro One source states whether it retained, repurposed, or removed the demonstration equipment. [5]

Organization

Survalent Technology Corporation

Provided the smart-grid analytics/control layer, aggregating device data and applying real-time microgrid-control algorithms through an ADMS/SCADA environment. [3]

Organization

Woodstock Hydro

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

Organization

Woodstock Hydro Services Inc.

Original utility host and demonstration operator; provided the distribution facility, customer cluster, smart-meter data, and project operating context until acquisition by Hydro One. [9][3][5]

Organization

York University, Toronto Metropolitan University (then Ryerson University), and Fanshawe College

Academic and training partners supporting sustainability research, data analysis, and demonstration work. [3][4]

System evidence

Energy mix, capacity, and specifications

Values can describe different project phases, generation sources, storage systems, or other components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
13.5 [1]
Storage
10 kWh Lead Acid Batteries [1]
Phase-1 solar capacity
13.5 kW in the recovered September 2013 overview. The accessible record does not state whether this is DC module nameplate or inverter-limited AC capacity. [10][9]
Phase-1 storage
10 kWh lead-acid battery storage. Battery voltage, usable energy, power rating, maker, model, and replacement history were not recovered. [10][9][3]
Phase-2 storage
A four-module, 20 kWh lithium-ion system was due for installation by September 2015. MaRS described a 20-50 kWh scalable product range and placed Woodstock at the smaller end; it did not publish a verified final inverter kW rating. [3][6]
Customer/building scope
Sixteen residential and commercial customers across six buildings in the phase-2 description. Ontario's funding summary likewise says 16 loads would be supported. [3][4]
Operating mode
Grid-connected and explicitly unable to couple/decouple for islanded operation. 'Microgrid' referred to coordinated distributed resources, customers, and controls on the utility feeder, not backup service during a wider outage. [3][8]
Public support
Contemporary coverage reports C$309,317 of Ontario support for the eCAMION/Woodstock project. Ontario's own Round 2 summary confirms the Smart Grid Fund project and 16-load scope but does not repeat the amount on the accessible page. [7][4]
EV integration
The archived overview identifies an EV charging station with a Nissan Leaf as a primary demonstration load. Public sources do not establish charger kW, connector standard, vehicle-to-grid capability, or continued operation. [9][3]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

01

Inverters and charge controllers

OutBack Power

Off-the-shelf inverter/charge-control equipment managed the solar and storage interface and exported surplus AC to the grid. No exact model or quantity was found. [3]

02

Phase-1 battery

Model not publicly disclosed

Lead-acid storage rated 10 kWh. Manufacturer, model, cell count, voltage, power, and usable capacity remain undisclosed. [9][3]

03

Phase-2 battery cabinet

eCAMION

Four-module lithium-ion cabinet and local controller planned at 20 kWh. The located company-neutral reporting does not verify the final cell supplier, inverter kW, or commissioning acceptance date. [3][6]

04

Distribution management and control

Survalent Technology

ADMS/SCADA and microgrid-control algorithms aggregated smart-meter, weather, power-quality, transformer, PV, storage, and EV-charger data for real-time decisions. [3]

05

Smart meters

Elster Electricity Metering

Bidirectional customer meters provided hourly import/export data through the utility metering backend; no meter model was published. [3]

06

EV charging

Sun Country Highway (project partner)

Charging station used with a Nissan Leaf demonstration load. The source names the partner but not the charger model or electrical rating. [3][9]

Technical record

Architecture, performance, and project updates

Concise technical facts, milestones, operating results, and later developments. Dated notes distinguish historical design claims from current evidence.

  • Storage

    Plans for larger lithium ion storage [1]

  • Control objective

    The project aimed to 'power-match' renewable production, storage, and customer load while testing customer control, power-system flexibility, adaptive infrastructure, and utility analytics. [3][7]

  • Data architecture

    Weather, power quality, a microFIT PV system, bidirectional smart meters, the EV charger, the distribution transformer, and battery data were aggregated by Survalent. Weather data supported both load and renewable-production forecasting. [3]

  • Phase boundary

    The 10 kWh lead-acid system was the installed phase-1 asset; the 20 kWh lithium-ion cabinet was its phase-2 successor/augmentation plan. The evidence does not establish that both were retained, so 30 kWh is not reported as installed storage. [9][3]

  • Utility ownership transition

    Hydro One bought Woodstock Hydro on October 31, 2015 and transitioned operations in 2016, overlapping the planned phase-2 installation and data-integration schedule. No disposition record for the demonstration was located. [5][3]

  • Current-data gap

    No public post-2017 source was found for PV output, battery availability, customer participation, controller status, EV-charger use, islanding retrofit, or equipment removal. A current federal technology catalogue entry establishes historical recognition, not continuous operation. [6][5]

Provenance

10 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  2. [2]
  3. [3]
  4. [4]
    Smart Grid Fund Round 2 Projects

    Government of Ontario · Primary source

  5. [5]
  6. [6]
    Woodstock Whites Lane Smart MicroGRID for Utility and Residential Application

    National Research Council Canada, Hydrogen and Energy Storage Technologies database · Primary source

  7. [7]
    Ontario provides funding for Whites Lane Microgrid

    Microgrid Knowledge · Secondary research

  8. [8]
    Proposal of a microgrid based on Whites Lane Smart Micro Grid

    Tecnologia en Marcha / SciELO Costa Rica · Secondary research

  9. [9]
    WHSI Whites Lane microGRID Overview, September 2013

    Woodstock Hydro Services / Ontario Sustainable Energy Association via Internet Archive · Archived source

  10. [10]
    Whites Lane Microgrid - archived legacy record

    Microgrid Projects via Internet Archive · Archived source

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