The carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station captured 80,530 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) in July.
According to numbers released by SaskPower earlier this month, the facility was online 94.8 per cent of the month, coming offline for 39 hours to accommodate outages at the Boundary Dam Power Station. The average capture rate was 2,598 tonnes per day with a peak one-day capture rate of 2,871 tonnes.
The amount of time online marked the second straight month that the CCS facility was online for at least 95 per cent of the time. In the 12-month span from July 2018 to June 2019, it was online 68.6 per cent.
Unit 3 produced an average of about 110 megawatts of power in July, compared to the previous 12-month average of 92.95 megawatts.
The 80,530 tonnes of CO2 captured marked about 80 per cent capacity for CO2 for the second consecutive month. The 12-month average for tonnes of CO2 captured was 51,297 tonnes, or about 51 per cent.
In the first seven months of the year, 340,858 tonnes of CO2 have been captured through the CCS facility. Since start-up in October 2014, a little more than 2.8 million tonnes of CO2 have been captured.
