trucking cost from johnThere is plenty of gas in John, or Ft. Nelson.
Currently, a diesel plant supplies power when there is a problem somewhere else on the system, or in winter months when demand for electricity exceeds what the hydro plants can supply.
Diesel is much more expensive than hydro power.
Last year Yukon Energy spent less than a million dollars on diesel power. But that was an anomaly, said Morrison, resulting from a particularly warm winter.
Natural gas costs half as much as diesel, including delivery to Whitehorse, he said.
With the two new gas generators, natural gas will replace an estimated 95 per cent of diesel usage.