Regina Battery Energy Storage System

Opened: 2024
Where: Fleet Street, Regina
Power Capacity: 20 megawatts (MW)

Facts about the Regina Battery Energy Storage System

This is the province’s first ever utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS)
It supports our goal to reduce emissions and allows us to store energy from intermittent resources, like wind and solar. It also helps us deliver power to the power grid when needed.
The system:
- provides added flexibility to the power system. It can help balance load when demand spikes for short periods of time.
- can provide 20 MW of power, which is equal to what’s needed to power 20,000 homes for up to an hour.
- consists of 12 battery containers on a site that’s about the size of a football field.
Battery energy storage is a developing technology that’s used throughout Canada and the United States.
This project will help us understand the potential for battery energy storage in Saskatchewan.
The system’s components are connected by many cables measuring a combined total of 63 kilometres. That’s almost the distance from Regina to Moose Jaw!