After a full year of generating power, the large-scale solar installation at SaskEnergy’s Town Border Station (TBS) 1 in south Regina has proven to be a shining success! SaskEnergy’s first renewable electricity system began generating power in April 2023. In its first full year of operation, the TBS 1 solar panels performed even better than expected! “The system was sized according to that site’s annual power consumption, so we expected that the station’s net electrical usage would balance to zero,” says Trevor Ficor, an Engineer-in-Training with our Emissions Management team. But in our 2023...
… Trevor Ficor, an Engineer-in-Training with our Emissions Management team . But in our 2023-24 fiscal year, the system … more power than was used! This provided SaskEnergy with a credit of more than 27,000 kilowatt hours on our power bill. This system is one of four large-scale solar arrays …