The carbon capture and storage facility at SaskPower鈥檚 Boundary Dam Power Station had its best month of the year in June.
The facility captured 81,417 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) last month.
It was also online 99.4 per cent of the month, coming offline for four hours due to a faulty valve on the compressor. In the previous 12 months, the facility had been online for 40.7 per cent of the time.
Most of the outages from the previous 12 months were due to a storm in 2018 that knocked Unit 3 out for nearly three months, and a planned shutdown earlier this year that lasted two months.
Unit 3 produced an average of about 115 megawatts last month, compared to the previous 12-month average of 83.66 megawatts.
The average daily capture rate was 2,714 tonnes per day, 706 tonnes per day higher than in May, and the peak one-day capture was 2,851 tonnes.
Also, the total volume of CO2 captured last month meant the facility was operating at 84 per cent capacity, compared to the 12-month average of about 44.6 per cent.
A total of 260,328 tonnes of CO2 were captured in the first six months of the year, bringing the total to 2,725,661 tonnes since the facility came online in October 2014.聽聽
