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Originally Posted by Locke
And that was a conventional Power Plant.
They want a revolutionary 'Green' Power Plant that basically has to be invented from scratch. Whats the timeline on something like that?
NDP Answer: Who Cares?
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I think Sheppard is a more complex power plant, one that uses the waste heat to run a secondary turbine, similar to the Calpine plant built in Balzac
However, The Nexen power plant in Balzac was a simple gas turbine with no extra heat recovery and took only a couple of years to build start to finis (the biggest challenge is ordering the gas furbine).
Enmax's crossfield plant similarly took only a couple of years to put online
FYI. About 1.5 gigawatts of generation capacity has been built in the Calgary region since the de regulation of electricity