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Why is wind power important?
SaskPower is committed to protecting the environment as we work to provide our customers with safe, reliable and cost-effective electricity. To us, being environmentally responsible means building and operating our facilities in a manner that will minimize our impact on our air, land and water.
Wind power generation represents an exciting opportunity for us to harness the power of prairie winds, providing electricity without generating greenhouse gas emissions. Electricity from wind power is clean, renewable and inexhaustible. A wind turbine 250 metres from a residence produces no more sound than a home refrigerator.
Because wind power creates no emissions, SaskPower’s wind power facilities will offset carbon dioxide emissions by 6 million tonnes over the course of its 25-year life – that’s offsetting the emissions created by heating 37,500 homes for 25 years.
Wind power has become a significant component in SaskPower’s generation mix with the March 2006 opening of Centennial Wind Power Facility, at the time Canada’s largest operating wind facility. This facility joins Cypress Wind Power Facility and SunBridge Wind Power Project to provide about 5 per cent of all Saskatchewan’s electrical needs.
How a wind power turbine works
SaskPower invites developers to participate in study on regional diversity of wind
