SaskEnergy
| Company type | Crown corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Natural Gas Public Utility |
| Founded | 1952 as the Gas Division of Saskatchewan Power Corporation |
| Headquarters | Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Key people | Ken From,[1] President and CEO |
| Products | Delivery of Natural Gas |
| Revenue | C$541 million (2018-19) |
| C$166 million (2018-19) | |
Number of employees | 1,100 (2018-19) |
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| Website | SaskEnergy |
SaskEnergy is a Crown corporation of the Saskatchewan government which delivers natural gas to 93% of the communities in the province. The company owns 70,000 kilometres of distribution pipelines, 15,000 kilometres of transmission pipelines, and serves over 397,000 customers.[2]
Natural gas gathering, treatment, compression, storage, and intraprovincial transmission is done via their subsidiary TransGas, and interprovincial natural gas transmission is done via their subsidiary Many Islands Pipelines.
Natural gas distribution and marketing is done by SaskEnergy itself.
History
Although natural gas has been used for cooking for thousands of years, and for lighting for hundreds of years, natural gas home heating did not become popular until the mid-20th century.[3]
In Western Canada, most natural gas networks were created by the existing electric utilities (for example: Manitoba Hydro, ENMAX, and BC Hydro). Saskatchewan did the same, and in 1952, the Saskatchewan Power Corporation (now SaskPower) began operating a natural gas transmission and distribution system in Saskatchewan.
In 1988, the Saskatchewan government split up SaskPower, and created the Saskatchewan Energy Corporation, which took over all of SaskPower’s natural gas assets.[2]
References
- ^ https://leaderpost.com/business/energy/ken-from-named-new-president-and-ceo-of-saskenergy
- ^ a b SaskEnergy (May 23, 2019). "SaskEnergy 2018-19 Annual Report: Keeping Saskatchewan Warm For 30 Years" (PDF). SaskEnergy.com. p. 3. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "A Brief History of Natural Gas - APGA". www.apga.org. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
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