Queen Elizabeth Power Station

Queen Elizabeth Power Station
Location of Queen Elizabeth Power Station
Country	Canada
Location	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Coordinates
Status	Active
Commission date	1959
Owner(s)	SaskPower

Power station information
Primary fuel	Natural Gas

Power generation information
Installed capacity	430 MW

Queen Elizabeth Power Station is a natural gas fired station owned by SaskPower, located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The station was called the South Saskatchewan River Generating Station until it was commissioned in 1959 by Queen Elizabeth II when the name was changed.

Description

The Queen Elizabeth Power Station consists of ^[1]:

one 60 MW and one 63 MW units (commissioned in 1959)
one 95 MW unit (commissioned in 1971)
six 25 MW combustion gas turbines used to recover excess heat and reduce greenhouse gasses using combined-cycle technology with Once Through Steam Generators (OTSG) (commissioned in June 2002)
three 36 MW Hitachi gas turbine units (commissioned 2010) at a cost of $240 million^[2]

Boilers were supplied by FW, Babcock and Wilcox, and Innovative Steam Technologies; while the turbines were supplied by Brown, Boveri & Cie, English Electric and Hitachi Canadian Industries ^[3].