Shand Power Station

Power station in Saskatchewan, Canada

49°5′18″N 102°51′50″W / 49.08833°N 102.86389°W / 49.08833; -102.86389StatusOperationalCommission date1992Owner(s)SaskPowerThermal power station Primary fuelCoalPower generationNameplate capacity279 MWExternal linksCommonsRelated media on Commons
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Shand Power Station is a coal fired station owned by SaskPower in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, near the city of Estevan.

Description

The Shand Power Station consists of:[1]

  • one 279 net MW unit (commissioned in 1992)
  • advanced environmental controls through a LIFAC (Limestone Injection into the Furnace and reActivation of Calcium) system

The boilers are supplied by Babcock & Wilcox and the turbines/generator are supplied by Hitachi.[2] The site is sized for a potential second unit in the future. A single 148 m (486 ft) smokestack is located at the plant, the tallest freestanding structure in Saskatchewan.

Shand Greenhouses

Shand Greenhouse was built in 1991 near the power station and is part of an initiative to offset the environmental impact of burning coal. The greenhouse grow and distribute seedlings free of charge to schools, communities and individuals for conservation and wildlife habitat projects.[3] The species of trees that are grown and given to the communities include: buffaloberry, bur oak, choke cherry, Colorado blue spruce, eastern red cedar, green ash, jack pine, lodgepole pine, Manitoba maple, pin cherry, plains cottonwood, red alder, red-osier dogwood, Saskatoon berry, Scots pine, sea-buckthorn, shrub willow, Siberian crab, Siberian larch, trembling aspen or white poplar, villosa lilac, western sandcherry, white birch or paper birch, willow, and Woods' rose.

See also

References

  1. ^ Plant Description Archived 2009-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Coal Fired Power Plants in Canada - Power Plants Around the World Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  3. ^ "Our greenhouse". Archived from the original on 29 June 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2010.

External links

  • flagCanada portal
  • iconEnergy portal
  • SaskPower Station Description
  • Shand Greenhouse