SASKATOON – Between growth in mining, the population, the economy in general, data centres, artificial intelligence and yes, even increasing adoption of electric vehicles, there is a broad expectation that power grids across North America will need to double in...
Editor’s note: On Feb. 23, Minister of Crown Investments Corp and Minister Responsible for SaskPower Jeremy Harrison released a plan for dramatically stepping up power transmission infrastructure, not only within the province, but to our neighbours....
In late January, Crown Investments Corp. Minister Jeremy Harrison announced that SaskPower would begin the process of technology selection for large, 1,000 megawatt-scale reactors. That’s a fancy way of saying Saskatchewan is in the market to pick a big reactor design...
For 52 minutes straight, Alberta’s 1,760 wind turbines produced precisely zero power the morning of Saturday, Feb 21, and next to no power for 27 hours straight, and counting. Those 1,760 wind turbines, collectively costing billions of dollars, could not charge...
Happy Valentine’s Day, courtesy the geology of southeast Saskatchewan, Chinook Consulting Services and Pipeline Online. The Viewfield astrobleme in southeast Saskatchewan is shaped like a heart, with Bakken wells pointing at it from all sides. An...