ESTEVAN - SaskPower has been forced to bring Unit 4 at the Boundary Dam Power Station back online, a little more than two months after it was deactivated.
According to Joel Cherry, a media relations and issues management consultant with SaskPower, Unit 4 is operating again because the Chinook Power Station, a natural gas facility located near Swift Current, is currently down for a planned maintenance outage.
Also, Unit 6 at Boundary Dam is currently operating at a reduced production output because of an equipment failure.
The Crown corporation plans to run Unit 4 for a few weeks while planned and unplanned outages at other facilities are resolved, then return to its laid-up state.
Currently the plan is to permanently retire Unit 4 in the spring.
Unit 4 was taken offline on Dec. 1, 2021, after more than 50 years of providing electricity to the province. At the time, it was expected to be a permanent move, but SaskPower did say that it could be reactivated if necessary to meet the province’s power generation needs.
