Queen Elizabeth Power Station
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 but renamed the Queen Elizabeth Power Station at the time of commissioning in 1959.
Description
The Queen Elizabeth Power Station consists of:- one 60 MW and one 63 MW units
- one 95 MW unit
- six 25 MW Hitachi combustion gas turbines with once-through steam generators used to recover excess heat and reduce greenhouse gas emissions using combined-cycle technology
- three 36 MW Hitachi gas turbine units at a cost of $240 million
- three other 36 MW gas turbine units and a steam turbine