Cleaner coal in Canada

When it begins operations, the new 110 MW coal-fired boiler with full carbon capture and storage (CCS) at the Boundary Dam power plant in Canada’s Saskatchewan Province will be one of the first large-scale CCS coal-fired power plants in the world.

A 1.16 billion US dollar government-industry investment, the project is significant for economic and sustainability reasons. Not only has it been designed to bring down the costs of CCS, it aims to produce electricity from coal while emitting two and a half times less CO2 than a modern gas plant.

The CO2 from the plant is to be sold for enhanced oil recovery, and the sulphur dioxide will be converted for sale as sulphuric acid. SaskPower, the plant’s operator, is establishing a Global CCS Consortium to share the knowledge.