Queen Elizabeth Power Station
Encyclopedia
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.
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
.
Fossil fuel power plant
A fossil-fuel power station is a power station that burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum to produce electricity. Central station fossil-fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation...
owned by SaskPower
SaskPower
Since 1929, SaskPower has been the principal supplier of electricity in Saskatchewan, Canada. Today, it serves more than 473,000 customers and manages $5.3 billion in assets...
, located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. The station was called the South Saskatchewan River Generating Station until it was commissioned in 1959 by Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
when the name was changed.
Description
The Queen Elizabeth Power Station consists of :- 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
Boilers were supplied by FW, Babcock and Wilcox
Babcock and Wilcox
The Babcock & Wilcox Company is a U.S.-based company that provides design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and facilities management services to nuclear, renewable, fossil power, industrial and government customers worldwide. B&W's boilers supply more than 300,000 megawatts of installed...
, and Innovative Steam Technologies; while the turbines were supplied by Brown, Boveri & Cie
Brown, Boveri & Cie
Brown, Boveri & Cie was a Swiss group of electrical engineering companies.It was founded in Baden, Switzerland, in 1891 by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri who worked at the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon. In 1970 BBC took over the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon...
, English Electric
English Electric
English Electric was a British industrial manufacturer. Founded in 1918, it initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transformers...
and Hitachi Canadian Industries
Hitachi Canadian Industries
Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd. is a wholly owned, independent subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. of Japan. located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. HCI was created in 1988, and is part of the Power & Industrial division of Hitachi Ltd. Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd...
.