SaskPower has released its monthly report for the carbon capture and storage facility at the Boundary Dam Power Station.
The facility captured 77,660 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) in November, which is the equivalent of taking 19,415 vehicles off the road. The facility was online 96.5 per cent of the month, coming offline for 25 hours to repair a leak in one of its coolers.
The CCS facility achieved a high capture rate with a one-day peak of 2,879 tonnes.
The amount of time spent online was the most since March, when it was online virtually 100 per cent of the time. The average for the previous 12 months was 65.1 per cent, thanks in large part to the June storm that knocked Unit 3 at Boundary Dam offline for nearly three months.
Also, the amount of CO2 captured was 80 per cent of capacity. The 12-month average was 49,029 tonnes of CO2 captured.
A total of 554,604 tonnes have been captured in the first 11 months of 2018.
The CCS facility also produced an average of nearly 120 megawatts of power, which was up from the previous 12-month average of 83.5 megawatts.
More than 2.39 million tonnes of CO2 have been captured since the CCS facility opened in October 2014.
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