Great Plains Power Station

Rank 2024

76

Image Credit: SaskPower

Industry Sector: Energy

Project Type: Natural Gas

Project Value: $760 million

Funding Source: Public

Provincial Funding: $760 million

Province: Saskatchewan

City / Region: Moose Jaw

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2024

The Great Plains Power Station is the latest natural gas power plant being constructed in Saskatchewan, following the successful completion of the Chinook Power Station in 2019. The Great Plains Power Station is being constructed as a 350-Mega.watt combined cycle plant, very similar to specifications of the Chinook project. As of the fall of 2023, the project is now more than 90 per cent complete. Project work hours have exceeded 2 million, with lube oil and closed cooling water flushes in progress and the water treatment plant is operating. 

Project Owner: SaskPower

Contractor: KMS Construction Ltd. (road upgrades)

Project/Construction Manager: Burns & McDonnell (EPC Contractor)

Other Key Players: Players: PCL Industrial; KMS Construction Ltd.; Allan Construction; Soletanche Bacy Canada; Quorex Construction; Innovative Piling Solutions; Inland Concrete; Supreme Steel; Hatch; Victaulic (supplier); GeoVerra (site surveyor)

2023 Rank: 74

2022 Rank: 70

2021 Rank: 67