Page 7 - Chinook Power Station

With over 500 people required at peak construction,
SaskPower estimates that up to $140 million was Major infrastructures like

generated to local businesses. This came in the Chinook Power Station

way of services to the plant, like fencing or security
will reduce the province’s
services and doesn’t include spending of workers
dependence on coal and lower
on services like hotels, restaurants and other
greenhouse gas emissions.
retail. Longer term, the power station permanently
employs about 25 people.

while reducing our overall emissions footprint.
TECHNOLOGY

The highly efficient combined-cycle operation will

The combined-cycle facility features a Siemens use exhaust heat that would otherwise be lost in a
F-Class gas turbine, a heat recovery steam simple-cycle configuration. The hot exhaust from

generator (HRSG) and a Siemens steam turbine to the initial cycle is captured to boil water into steam

boost power output and maximize energy efficiency in the HRSG and spin an additional second

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