Objective: Increase the power supply to address the projected demand
Reducing demand
- Increase awareness of how to manage power demand
- Increase awareness of Net Metering Program
- Evaluate peak and off-peak pricing structures
Increasing and maintaining supply
- Continue to partner with power utilities, power suppliers, First Nations groups and Saskatchewan communities for intermittent and peak-demand energy
- Evaluate renewable fuel sources and emissions-reduction technology, with a focus on solar and heat recovery generation technology
- Investigate electricity storage
- Create a SaskPower Hydro Development Unit to review all current and potential hydro power production
- Complete a comprehensive evaluation of carbon capture technologies
- Evolve Small Power Producers Program
- Evolve Green Options Partner Program
- Implementing smart grid technology, including smart meters, as part of the Advanced Metering project
Transmission and distribution
- Continue to increase the transmission capacity between SaskPower and other power generation utilities
- Improve reliability, security and efficiency of the electrical grid through smart grid implementation
