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Distributed Generation
Flare Gas
This project was commissioned in 2003 near Carlyle,
Saskatchewan in partnership with SaskEnergy and Flatland Exploration. The
pilot project examined the use of flare gas – a by-product from the process of extracting and
processing oil – to run a microturbine. Flare gas is normally flared
and the energy is wasted. This project attempted to capture this waste
energy, convert it to electricity and thereby avoid consuming other fuels
that would generate additional emissions.
Results of the project showed that this technology is not ready for effective application in Saskatchewan. The complexity of the generating equipment and unreliability of the fuel processing system proved the project both unreliable and uneconomical. This pilot project was decommissioned in December 2005.
