SaskPower (SPC)
SaskPower (SPC) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 27 power plants with 5.1 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 1.9 GW.
Capacity by fuel
27 power plants with 5.1 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 1.9 GW from 6 plants (37%)
- Coal: 1.5 GW from 3 plants (30%)
- Hydro: 864 MW from 7 plants (17%)
- Wind: 816 MW from 9 plants (16%)
- Solar: 10 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Biomass: 2 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Boundary Dam: Coal, 672 MW, Saskatchewan
- Queen Elizabeth: Natural gas, 634 MW, Saskatchewan
- Poplar River: Coal, 582 MW, Saskatchewan
- Chinook Power Station: Natural gas, 353 MW, Saskatchewan
- E B Campbell: Hydro, 289 MW, Saskatchewan
- Shand: Coal, 276 MW, Saskatchewan
- Cory Cogeneration: Natural gas, 260 MW, Saskatchewan
- North Battleford: Natural gas, 260 MW, Saskatchewan
- Nipawin: Hydro, 255 MW, Saskatchewan
- Meridian Cogeneration: Natural gas, 210 MW, Saskatchewan
States and provinces
- Saskatchewan: 27 plants
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Balancing authorities: HIFLD Control Areas (position, peak load); EIA-930 reference tables (which BAs are active); EIA-861 (a feature's BA); Wattlas outlines for Canadian and Mexican BAs. License: Public domain