Opened: 2024
Where: Moose Jaw, SK
Fuel source: Natural Gas
Power capacity: 370 megawatts (MW)
- Great Plains Power Station is a combined cycle gas turbine facility.
- It’s generating capacity is equal to what’s needed to power up to 370,000 homes in Saskatchewan.
- Construction started in March 2021 and it officially opened in December 2024.
- We worked with more than 300 Saskatchewan companies and awarded a record value of contracts to local and Indigenous-based companies.
- $267 million to local companies
- $49 million to Indigenous companies
- There were over 600 workers onsite during peak construction. This included workers from Saskatchewan businesses and skilled tradespeople, both unionized and non-unionized. The site permanently employs 25 workers.
- The power station is located at the Moose Jaw Industrial Park south of Moose Jaw.
- Combined total labour of all workers for the project is estimated to be 2.9 million hours.
- Construction included the following:
- 11,200 cubic meters of concrete
- 3,400 metric tonnes of steel
- 20,000+ metres of pipe
- 200,000 metres of cable
Natural Gas Power Stations
Watch the video to find out how we power the province using natural gas.
