The carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at the Boundary Dam Power Station was offline in June, thanks to an outage that had been previously planned.
The outage occurred all month to address regularly scheduled maintenance at Boundary Dam’s Unit 3 and the carbon capture facility.
The work included cleaning and inspecting the carbon capture facility and applying a number of new technical and mechanical fixes that will further improve efficiency and reliability.
On the power side, a number of mechanical issues were addressed.
The power plant came back online in early July. The carbon capture facility is expected back online in the middle of the month.
Jonathan Tremblay, a spokesperson with SaskPower, said the cleaning and maintenance work for both the power unit and the CCS facility was routine.
Crews also applied dozens of chemical and mechanical fixes to the CCS side to further improve reliability.
“We’ve learned a lot in the last year and have waited for this scheduled maintenance to apply a lot of fixes,” said Tremblay.
