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PTRC’s Aquistore CO2 Storage Project has been chosen as the recipient of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan’s Environmental Excellence Award for 2023.  The project, which has stored over 585,000 tonnes of captured CO2 more than 3.2 km underground, is the storage component of SaskPower’s Boundary Dam CCS Facility. APEGS bestows their…

Compressed Air Energy Storage Offers Potential for Emissions Free Baseload Energy PTRC Releases White Paper on CAES Today, the PTRC released a white paper on the development of compressed air energy storage (CAES) in Saskatchewan as one possible solution to produce cost competitive, low or emissions-free firm capacity electricity.  Using commercially proven, available equipment, and known…

The PTRC is pleased to announce funding for a new research project by the Saskatchewan Hydrogen Research Group - made up of inter disciplinary researchers at both the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan - on the role of CO2 storage in blue hydrogen production in the province.  Read more here. 

PTRC is proud to have been working on this study in cooperation with our partners at the International Mineral Innovation Institute, BHP Billiton, Mosaic, SaskPower, Innovation Saskatchewan, Enbridge, and the International CCS Knowledge Centre.  Read the full press release from IMII here.