{"id":935930,"date":"2026-10-17T03:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935930\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:04:12","slug":"london-lands-479m-hitachi-plant-that-will-feed-energy-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935930\/","title":{"rendered":"London lands $479M-Hitachi plant that will feed energy grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Canada continues to slug it out with the U.S. on a trade and tariff dispute and more economic fallout looms, London just took a ringside seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hitachi Energy, a subsidiary of the Japanese industrial giant, will build a $479-million manufacturing plant in London to make parts to build transformers and feed the national electrical grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hitachi broke ground Friday on what will be a 21,000-square-metre plant (226,000 square feet) at Huron Street and Veterans Memorial Parkway that will employ about 100 when it begins production in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Canada continues to slug it out with the U.S. on a trade and tariff dispute and more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,894,320721,21256,66],"class_list":["post-935930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-growing-gains","tag-ontario-government","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}