Thursday, March 6, 2008

Plant's clean-coal retrofit would cut power output

Generation capability would fall by 40 MW due to CO2 capture

Bruce Johnstone, Saskatchewan News NetworkPublished: Thursday, March 06, 2008

SaskPower's proposed $1.4-billion clean-coal demonstration project at Boundary Dam Power station in Estevan has been billed as producing "100 megawatts of clean, base-load power, while reducing SaskPower's greenhouse-gas emissions by about one million tonnes per year."

While the pilot project is expected to reduce SaskPower's GHG emissions by one megatonne, it will also reduce Boundary Dam's total output by about 40 megawatts, a senior SaskPower official confirmed Wednesday

Read Johnstone's Article HERE

1 comment:

fancysk8r said...

Congrats to all who put their time and effort into the clean coal project! Your efforts are greatly appreciated by many, many people. Thank you :)