Gull Lake wins SaskPower electricity project

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Published: April 26, 2001

The landscape near Gull Lake, Sask., is about to change.

Seventeen turbines will be erected about five kilometres southeast of the town beginning next month, as construction of a $20 million wind farm gets under way.

Enbridge Inc. and Suncor Energy Inc. submitted the winning proposal to construct and operate a wind power facility.

SaskPower will buy the resulting electricity and resell it.

The company put out the call for proposals last fall after the federal and provincial governments signed a deal that would see Ottawa spend $12.4 million over 10 years to buy wind-generated power in the province.

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In the March budget, the province announced it would also participate. The province will buy at least 10 gigawatt hours of wind power from SaskPower in each of the next 10 years, which would meet about 15 percent of the government’s electricity needs.

The SunBridge Wind Power Project will produce about 11 megawatts of electricity.

It is expected to be in operation by June 2002, and provide power to half the federal buildings in the province.

Gull Lake was chosen because of high wind speeds in the area and the proximity to existing power lines.

SaskPower still faces a $9 million lawsuit over a previous attempt to get into wind power.

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Karen Briere

Karen Briere

Karen Briere grew up in Canora, Sask. where her family had a grain and cattle operation. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Regina and has spent more than 30 years covering agriculture from the Western Producer’s Regina bureau.

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