The carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station had another very productive month in March.
The facility captured 61,801 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) last month, which was about 62 per cent of capacity, according to information posted on SaskPower’s website. The average daily capture rate was 2,289 tonnes per day, with a peak one-day capture of 2,683 tonnes.
The average for the previous 12 months at the CCS facility was 55,328 tonnes of captured CO2.
The CCS facility was online 83 per cent of the month, coming offline for a total of 123 hours, or a little more than five days, to accommodate two outages at the Boundary Dam Unit 3 power unit.
The average time online for the previous 12 months was 71.4 per cent.
Unit 3 at Boundary Dam produced an average of about 100 megawatts of power in March, compared to the 12-month average of 97.3 megawatts.
In the first three months of this year, the CCS facility captured 178,520 tonnes of CO2. Since the facility came online in October 2014, 3,259,972 tonnes of CO2 have been kept out of the atmosphere.
