With another prolonged period of hot weather in the forecast, SaskPower says doing what you can to conserve electricity is vital. While they are prepared to handle the increased demand, the Crown says it’s more difficult to generate power during hot weather, because fuel efficiency is lower and in some cases there is very little […]
Government officials were on hand to officially kickoff the construction of the new Great Plains Power Station near Moose Jaw. The plant, expected to be operational by 2024, will add 360 megawatts of electricity to the provincial grid, enough to power Saskatoon. Minister Responsible for SaskPower, Don Morgan says the gas-powered plant will generate cleaner […]
It’s a record that may be short-lived. With fans and air conditioners going across the province, SaskPower says it recorded a new summer power demand record of 3543 megawatts Wednesday afternoon with that total expected to rise Wednesday night. “Despite SaskPower recording a new peak power demand due to this recent heat wave, SaskPower is […]
SaskPower’s latest utility-scale wind facility has been announced. Dubbed the Bekevar Wind Energy project, the wind facility will generate 200 mega-watts of clean and renewable energy in southeast Saskatchewan. It will be constructed north of Moose Mountain Provincial Park, in the R.Ms of Hazelwood and Kingsley , and on the Cowessess First Nation. When finished, […]
SaskPower has a mystery on its hands, and its a frustrating one. Customers in White City, Emerald Park and the RM of Edenwold have been reporting low power or flickering power and while the problem isn’t widespread through the communities, it is a problem because SaskPower can’t figure out the cause. “On some customers houses, […]
SaskPower crews continue to make repairs to secondary power lines while looking out for any additional downed infrastructure. Scott McGregor with the provincial power company says just under 57,000 customers were affected by last Thursday’s ice storms that hit east and southeastern Saskatchewan. He said at the height of the outage, 48 SaskPower workers and […]
SaskPower crews made significant progress in restoring power to those affected by Thursday’s ice storm. As of 7:30 Sunday night, they estimate roughly 20 customers were without power in Melville last night due to a combination of damage being too severe to fix safely, and crews having difficulty reaching customers to obtain consent to issue […]
Thursday night’s spring storm that brought freezing rain and strong winds to east-central Saskatchewan continues to be problematic for SaskPower. The company says 838 customers were still without service, as of 11 a.m. Sunday morning. In a news release, SaskPower says they are allocating as many available resources as possible to address and repair secondary […]
SaskPower estimates that just over 600 customers were without power overnight as restoration efforts continue after Thursday’s ice storm. In a release from SaskPower, they say power was restored for the vast majority of primary line, and the bulk of customers without service are from damaged secondary lines or service masts. They add Melville has […]
SaskPower crews continue trying to restore service to those who lost it because of Thursday night’s icestorm with an estimated 1,800 still without electricity. In a release issued Saturday afternoon, SaskPower says crews have been brought in from other parts of the province to assist in the damage assessment and repair in the Yorkton and […]
