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Cowessess Renewable
Energy Storage Facility
Generate 2019 - Vancouver
November 8, 2019
Cowessess First Nation
Progressive community located in Southern Saskatchewan
Largest nation by population and land base in Treaty 4
Independent – not affiliated with any tribal council
Forward thinking leadership
Own a portfolio of businesses including:
Renewable energy development company
Mixed cattle and grain farm
Golf course
Two Retail gas stations (Esso)
Construction company
Land development company
Cowessess
Project Location
TransCanada Highways
Emerald Park
Site
Project Overview
Cowessess was the proponent of Canada’s first
wind turbine-battery storage project on Cowessess
land outside of Regina
1 Megawatt project with a 20-year Power Purchase
Agreement with SaskPower
Enercon E-53 wind turbine with 73m hub height and
53m diameter blades
SAFT lithium-ion batter system housed in two
containers
Cowessess owns the project and executed through
a partnership with the Saskatchewan Research
Council
Project Collaborators Cowessess First Nation
Wealth
creation
Alignment Reduce
with greenhouse
Traditional gas
Beliefs emissions
Project
Benefits Reliably
increase the
Employment amount of
for Citizens renewables
on the
Prove the power grid
reliability
of wind-
storage
Key Project Milestones
2006 Wind Resource Assessment
2009-10 Funding Proposals/ Business Case
2011 Engineering/ Design/ Financing
2012-13 Construction/ Commissioning
2014-18 Research/ Reporting
2018-19 500kW Solar Add On
Battery System
➢ Smoothing, dispatch and firming algorithms were
tested and evaluated with wind only
2013-
2014 ➢ Battery system reduced volatility to the grid by
storing power that can be dispatched on demandBattery System
➢ Battery was idle from 2015-2018.
➢ RD was completed and no economic
2015- incentive from utility.
2018
➢ Maintained the battery state of charge and
the net impact on the site was energy losses
Generation Losses Overall
Turbine Solar Battery Control Battery Net
Fiscal
Generation Generation HVAC Building Efficiency Generation
Year
(MWh) (MWh) (MWh) (MWh) (MWh) (MWh)
2013-14 2,224 - -20 -63 -46 2,095
2014-15 2,195 - -21 -51 -43 2,080
2015-16 2,120 - -19 -40 -31 2,030
2016-17 2,521 - -25 -47 -43 2,406
2017-18 2,349 - -18 -37 -31 2,263
2018-19* 1,845 164 -33 -49 -13 1,915
* 2018/19 Utility was disconnected to upgrade distribution line and relay communicationsBattery System
2018- Currently testing algorithms of how
2019 battery system can smooth and firm
wind and solar combined. Research
still underway.
Research Collaboration
Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC)
SRC-Smoothing Reliability of Wind
Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WeiCan)
Ancillary Services from Wind TurbinesBattery System
2020
Beyond OPTIONS
A) SaskPower to offer a time of day program or
revenue incentive for access to dispatchable
power
Likelihood is low – site is too small to be
meaningful
B) Test bed for new up and coming hybrid
systems, control system development,
alternative
However economic spin off is limited
C) Redeploy to a off grid community where it
could create an economic impactScaling Up
SaskPower – has set aside 20MW of solar development for
First Nation communities to develop
First Nations Power Authority (FNPA) is the organization
who administers the set asides
Cowessess First Nation with our partners Elemental
Energy Inc. awarded a 10 MW set aside May 2019 to be
co– located at our existing site.
Timeline
Oct – Dec Dec 2019 – Mid 2020 Early 2021
2019 Feb 2020 Start Project Expected
Consultation Detailed design Construction Commercial
and key and Operating
permits construction Date
planningAwasis Solar LP – 10 MW Solar
Future Utility Scale
Storage
CFN desires to utilize previous R&D, lessons, learned, existing
assets and new large scale development to continue effort in
utility scale storage solutions
Currently no utility scale battery system tied to SaskPower grid
With SaskPower’s mandate to increase renewables to 50% of
generation capacity by 2030, provincially we need more
innovation in terms of clean baseline power
With the federal focus on Smart Grid Technology and potential
for new funding in this regard we need to be positioning
ourselves with a solution.
Welcome opportunity to learn more about other utility scale
(10MW +) battery solutions that could be replicated in
Saskatchewan.Video Cowessess Renewable Energy Storage Facility
Questions Contact Cowessess Ventures Ltd. Jessica Nixon, CEO jessica.nixon@cowessessfn.com
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