Editing Boundary Dam (section)

==History==
The Boundary Dam Power Station is a coal-fired power plant commissioned between 1959 and 1978, consisting of six units fired on locally mined lignite.<ref>About us - Power Generation Facilities: Baseload Thermal Stations: Boundary Dam. (2010). https://web.archive.org/web/20100105083637/http://saskpower.com/aboutus/corpinfo/power_generation_facilities/baseload_thermal_stations/boundary_dam.shtml</ref> Unit 3 entered service in 1970. In the mid-2000s SaskPower began assessing options to comply with new Canadian federal regulations that required refurbished coal units to produce power at less than 549 tonnes of CO<sub>2</sub> per GWh or be subject to carbon taxes.<ref>BD3 Status Update: Q3 2025. (2025). https://saskpower.com/about-us/our-company/blog/2025/bd3-status-update-q3-2025</ref>

In 2008, the Government of Saskatchewan announced a major reconstruction and repowering of Unit 3 as a flagship CCS demonstration, supported by federal funding of C$240million from the Government of Canada.<ref>Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration Project. (2013). https://natural-resources.canada.ca/sites/www.nrcan.gc.ca/files/energy/files/pdf/11-1438_eng_acc.pdf</ref>

Construction of the capture plant and repowering of Unit 3 began in 2011. The project reached mechanical completion in 2014 and was officially commissioned on 2 October 2014, becoming the first operating commercial-scale CCS project on a coal-fired power plant worldwide.<ref name=IEAGHGBD3>IEAGHG, "Integrated CCS Project at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station", 2015-06. (2016). https://ieaghg.org/publications/integrated-ccs-project-at-saskpowers-boundary-dam-power-station/</ref>

In 2016 SaskPower and BHP Billiton established the International CCS Knowledge Centre in Regina to capture and share lessons from BD3 and to support future large-scale CCS projects with expert technical knowledge.<ref>BHP Billiton and SaskPower Establish Carbon Capture and Storage Knowledge Centre. (2016). https://www.bhp.com/news/media-centre/releases/2016/02/bhp-billiton-and-saskpower-establish-carbon-capture-and-storage-knowledge-centre</ref>