Capstone Infrastructure Corporation has completed and commissioned a new 10-megawatt wind farm near the Village of Riverhurst and will sell emissions-free energy to SaskPower through a 20-year agreement.
Both companies recently announced the completion of the project. Riverhurst is northwest of Moose Jaw.
Capstone is a developer, owner, and operator of clean and renewable energy projects across North America. Its portfolio includes about 776 MW gross installed capacity across 30 venues, including wind, solar, hydro, biomass, and natural gas co-generation power plants.
“It’s great to see the Riverhurst Wind Farm achieve commercial operation, which also accomplishes a couple of important milestones for Capstone, including completing our first project in Saskatchewan and welcoming the 30th operating facility in our fleet,” said CEO David Eva.
Eva thanked the Capstone team for working on the project for many years and seeing it to fruition, along with turbine supplier Enercon, SkyFlo and WSP for supporting the construction process in a safe and orderly managed process.
The Capstone CEO also commended SaskPower for its collaborative approach on the project and looked forward to working with the Crown corporation to further reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with electricity generation across the province.
“We are pleased the Riverhurst Wind Farm is now online and providing renewable, emissions-free power for our customers, and we offer our congratulations to Capstone on this achievement,” says Mike Marsh, SaskPower president & CEO.
SaskPower is on track to reduce its GHG emissions by almost 50 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, while it is working to add more renewables such as wind to reach that goal, he continued. The Crown corporation is currently bringing an additional 575 megawatts of wind capacity to the provincial grid soon.
