This relatively low customer density means that while most North American electrical utilities supply an average of 12 customers per circuit kilometre, SaskPower supplies about three. Some files or items cannot be translated, including graphs, photos and other file formats such as portable document formats (PDFs). SaskPower International operates in Canada. The board gets appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1976. A number of pages on the Government of Saskatchewan's website have been professionally translated in French. Better yet, they want to know how working for them will help you to accomplish those goals! The federal coal regulations mentioned above would have meant that Boundary Dam units 4 and 5 would need to close at the end of 2019. Rural Electrification in Saskatchewan during the 1950s. SaskPower International SaskPower International Mailing Address: 2025 Victoria Avenue, Regina, SK, Canada, S4P 0S1: 2 Contacts. The Power of Electricity to Change Women’s Work in Post-War Saskatchewan. A social enterprise, we connect and inform 1,022,000+ development, health, humanitarian, and sustainability professionals through news, business intelligence, and funding & career opportunities so you can do more good for more people. [11][12], The SaskPower transmission system utilizes lines carrying 230,000 volts, 138,000 volts and 72,000 volts. The Government of Saskatchewan does not warrant the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of any information translated by this system. In particular, a new 350MW combined-cycle natural gas generating station is expected to come online in 2019 and a total of 340MW of hydro imports from Manitoba will be available by 2022. Most electrical utilities were owned either privately or by municipalities, and none of them were interconnected. SaskPower is committed to supporting economic growth and improving the quality of life for the people of the province. [24], As coal units close, SaskPower plans to replace the lost capacity with low-emissions generation sources such as combined-cycle natural gas, wind, and solar, and they also plan to import more hydroelectricity from Manitoba. [20], In 2012, the Harper government introduced regulations to start phasing out coal-fired power plants in Canada. Our International CCS Knowledge Centre experts were part of the team that designed and built SaskPower's Boundary Dam 3 Carbon Capture Facility, the world's first and only commercial power plant to integrate Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS/CCUS) technology. In 2018, the Trudeau government accelerated the coal phase-out by mandating that all coal units must shut down by 2030, regardless of the year they were built. [25][26], In addition to building new generators and interconnections to reduce emissions, SaskPower is implementing energy efficiency and demand-side management (DSM) programs to reduce electricity use per-capita. Alberta is part of WECC, so the interconnection relies on an AC/DC-AC link via the McNeill HVDC Back-to-back station.[13]. SaskPower International Established in 1929, SaskPower is the Saskatchewan’s leading electricity supplier. We invite you to join us. Find services and information for Saskatchewan residents and visitors. [3], SaskPower has four interconnections to Manitoba, one interconnection to North Dakota, and one interconnection to Alberta. If you have any questions about Google™ Translate, please visit: Google™ Translate FAQs. Translations are made available to increase access to Government of Saskatchewan content for populations whose first language is not English. To manage the high costs of electrifying the province's sparsely populated rural areas, SaskPower used a large-scale implementation of a single wire ground return distribution system, claimed to be a pioneering effort (although some utilities in the USA had been using such a system on its rural lines). In the early days of electricity in the province of Saskatchewan, electricity was largely unavailable outside of larger centres. • NorthPoint Energy Solutions Inc., located in Regina, Saskatchewan is a wholly owned subsidiary of SaskPower and is SaskPower's wholesale energy marketing agent. SaskPower was founded as the Saskatchewan Power Commission in 1929, becoming the Saskatchewan Power Corporation in 1949 with the passage of The Rural Electrification Act.