SaskPower has released the January numbers for the carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at the Boundary Dam Power Station.
The facility captured 51,346 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) in January and was online 84.4 per cent of the month. It was offline for 77 hours due to boiler issues at Boundary Dam Unit 3 (BD3) and a maintenance repair issue at the CCS facility.
In the previous 12 months, the CCS facility was online for an average of less than 70 per cent of the time.
The 12-month average for the volume of CO2 captured is 49,695 tonnes of CO2 captured.
An average of nearly 120 megawatts of power was produced during the month, compared to the 12-month average of nearly 90 megawatts.
The CCS facility achieved a peak one-day capture rate of 2,580 tonnes in January. The average daily capture rate was lower than the previous month due to amine issues that limited the amount of CO2 that could be absorbed.
The CCS facility and BD3 are scheduled for planned maintenance starting on March 11. The outage is expected to take 60 days to allow for maintenance work to be complete.
A total of 2,516,679 tonnes of CO2 have been captured at the facility since it went online in October 2014.
