Westinghouse Electric Company announced last week that it has formed a new corporate entity to help expand its business in Canada.Headquartered in Toronto, Westinghouse Electric Canada will liaise with more than 150 Canadian Westinghouse suppliers, in addition to marketing the AP1000 reactor design in the country."The formation of an official Canadian entity is consistent with our strategy to increase business in the country," Westinghouse Americas President Jim Ferland said in a release Thursday. "Our Canadian customers have increasingly turned to us for nuclear power plant services and upgrades to automation and controls. ... With the creation of Westinghouse Canada, we will better provide our worldwide capabilities and experience in a fashion that will meet the specific needs and aspirations of Canada's viable nuclear energy industry."Moreover, the release said Canadian utilities have expressed interest in the AP1000, which completed a preliminary design review by that country’s nuclear regulators in 2010.Westinghouse pitched the design for a project in Ontario before its bid deadline in February of 2009, but the project later stalled and the bid was found to be non-compliant with price-escalation rules, according to the World Nuclear Association. In 2009 Bruce Power also considered the AP1000 for the Peace Region Nuclear Power Plant Project, but it too was suspended last year.