The old hydro plant is to the right of me as you look at the picture and behind me in the distance the white building is our modern hyrdo plant. Despite favourable climate and topography hydro was not used at all the station. Grtiviken was the only station that used it long term and to its full potential. The hydro plant had 3 diesal generators to provide electricity for the near by refridgeration plant. Two pipes led from Gull Lake dam and turned three turbines and connected generators. There was also a small turbine in the station itself for winter use when staff numbers were lower.

These days most of our power comes from hydro in fact we use a very small percentage of it’s output. The remaining diesal boilers have been slated for removal and replacement with electric ones in the coming years. It does make us a bit lazy with turning off electrics as it seems like a limitless supply specially on rainy days such as today 🙂