Company/Alliance: SaskPower; Fluor; Hitachi Ltd; Babcock &Wilcox Canada Ltd; Neill and Gunter Ltd; Air Liquide
Location: Boundary Dam power plant, Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 100 MW
Capture Technology: Oxyfuel (90% capture target)
CO2 Fate: EOR
Timing: Phase 1: 2013 (Reduction of power plant's generating capacity from 139MW to 120Mw).
Phase 2: 2015 (Reduction of plant to 100MW and implementing carbon capture)
Motivation/Economics: Retro-fit. Total cost of project over 7 years: $1.5 billion. Revenue from the sale of CO2 is expected to offset the project costs.
Comments: This project has been re-sized from an earlier plant to build a 300MW clean coal facility near Estevan which had been shelved by the previous provincial government because of its escalating cost ($1.5 billion to $3.8 billion). This smaller scale project has occurred after the federal government gave the province $250 million towards carbon capture. The carbon capture is planned to be located at Boundary Dam's Unit 3.
Project Link: SaskPower clean coal project website
Other Sources and Press Release:
Fluor awarded the front-end engineering design (july 2009)
SaskPower plans $1.4 billion clean coal power plant (Feb 2008)
Clean coal power plant to be build at Boundary Dam (Feb 2008)
SaskPower seeks energy industry partnership (May 2008)
SaskPower press release on funding award (Feb 2008)
Date Modified September 17, 2009
