SaskPower recently announced an interesting deal.

SaskPower has announced it has signed Power Purchase Agreements with NRGreen Power Limited Partnership for three new projects selected during the second phase of the Environmentally Preferred Power program.  

SaskPower will purchase approximately 15.3 megawatts of electricity from heat-recovery projects to be built at Alliance Pipeline compressor stations located near Alameda, Estlin and Loreburn.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Recreation Glenn Hagel fells that a green economy will help the province be properous in the future.

Hagel says generating electricity from waste heat simply makes good environmental sense.