Shand Power Station
Encyclopedia
Shand Power Station is a coal fired station
owned by SaskPower
, located near Estevan, Saskatchewan
, Canada
.
The boilers are supplied by Babcock and Wilcox
and the turbines/generator are supplied by Hitachi
. The site is sized for a potential second unit in the future.
, Bur Oak
, Choke Cherry, Colorado Blue Spruce, Eastern Red Cedar, Green Ash
, Jack Pine
, Lodgepole Pine
, Manitoba Maple, Pin Cherry
, Plains Cottonwood, Red Alder
, Red-Osier Dogwood, Saskatoon Berry
, Scots Pine
, Sea-Buckthorn
, Shrub Willow
, Siberian Crab, Siberian Larch
, Trembling Aspen or White Poplar
, Villosa Lilac
, Western Sandcherry, White Birch or Paper Birch, Willow
and Wood's Rose.
Fossil fuel power plant
A fossil-fuel power station is a power station that burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum to produce electricity. Central station fossil-fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation...
owned by SaskPower
SaskPower
Since 1929, SaskPower has been the principal supplier of electricity in Saskatchewan, Canada. Today, it serves more than 473,000 customers and manages $5.3 billion in assets...
, located near Estevan, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
Description
The Shand Power Station consists of :- one 279 net MW unit (commissioned in 1992)
- advanced environmental controls through a LIFAC (Limestone Injection into the Furnace and reActivation of Calcium) system
The boilers are supplied by Babcock and Wilcox
Babcock and Wilcox
The Babcock & Wilcox Company is a U.S.-based company that provides design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and facilities management services to nuclear, renewable, fossil power, industrial and government customers worldwide. B&W's boilers supply more than 300,000 megawatts of installed...
and the turbines/generator are supplied by Hitachi
Hitachi Canadian Industries
Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd. is a wholly owned, independent subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. of Japan. located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. HCI was created in 1988, and is part of the Power & Industrial division of Hitachi Ltd. Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd...
. The site is sized for a potential second unit in the future.
Shand Greenhouses
Shand Greenhouse was built in 1991 near the power station and is part of an initiative to offset the environmental impact of burning coal. The greenhouse grow and distribute seedlings free of charge to schools, communities and individuals for conservation and wildlife habitat projects. The species of trees that are grown and given to the communities include: BuffaloberryBuffaloberry
Shepherdia are a genus of small shrubs which have rather bitter tasting berries, native to northern and western North America. They are non-legume Nitrogen fixers...
, Bur Oak
Bur oak
Quercus macrocarpa, the Bur Oak, sometimes spelled Burr Oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section Quercus sect. Quercus, native to North America in the eastern and midwestern United States and south-central Canada...
, Choke Cherry, Colorado Blue Spruce, Eastern Red Cedar, Green Ash
Green Ash
Fraxinus pennsylvanica is a species of ash native to eastern and central North America, from Nova Scotia west to southeastern Alberta and eastern Colorado, south to northern Florida, and southwest to eastern Texas....
, Jack Pine
Jack Pine
Jack pine is a North American pine with its native range in Canada east of the Rocky Mountains from Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia, and the northeast of the United States from Minnesota to Maine, with the southernmost part of the range just into northwest Indiana...
, Lodgepole Pine
Lodgepole Pine
Lodgepole Pine, Pinus contorta, also known as Shore Pine, is a common tree in western North America. Like all pines, it is evergreen.-Subspecies:...
, Manitoba Maple, Pin Cherry
Pin cherry
Prunus pensylvanica, also known as bird cherry, fire cherry, pin cherry, and red cherry, is a North American cherry species in the genus Prunus.-Distribution:...
, Plains Cottonwood, Red Alder
Red Alder
Alnus rubra, the Red alder, is a deciduous broadleaf tree native to western North America.-Description:It is the largest species of alder in North America and one of the largest in the world, reaching heights of 20–35 m. The official tallest red alder stands 32 meters tall in Clatsop County, Oregon...
, Red-Osier Dogwood, Saskatoon Berry
Saskatoon berry
Amelanchier alnifolia, the saskatoon, saskatoon berry, serviceberry, sarvisberry or juneberry is a shrub with edible berry-like fruit, native to North America from Alaska across most of western Canada and in the western and north central United States. Historically it was also called "pigeon berry"...
, Scots Pine
Scots Pine
Pinus sylvestris, commonly known as the Scots Pine, is a species of pine native to Europe and Asia, ranging from Scotland, Ireland and Portugal in the west, east to eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains, and as far north as well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia...
, Sea-Buckthorn
Sea-buckthorn
The sea-buckthorns are deciduous shrubs in the genus Hippophae, family Elaeagnaceae. The name sea-buckthorn is hyphenated here to avoid confusion with the buckthorns...
, Shrub Willow
Willow
Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere...
, Siberian Crab, Siberian Larch
Siberian Larch
The Siberian Larch or Russian Larch is a frost-hardy tree native to western Russia, from close to the Finnish border east to the Yenisei valley in central Siberia, where it hybridises with the Dahurian Larch L...
, Trembling Aspen or White Poplar
White Poplar
Populus alba, commonly called abele, silver poplar, silverleaf poplar, or white poplar, is a species of poplar, most closely related to the aspens . It is native from Spain and Morocco through central Europe to central Asia...
, Villosa Lilac
Lilac
Syringa is a genus of about 20–25 species of flowering woody plants in the olive family , native to woodland and scrub from southeastern Europe to eastern Asia, and widely and commonly cultivated in temperate areas elsewhere....
, Western Sandcherry, White Birch or Paper Birch, Willow
Willow
Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere...
and Wood's Rose.