REGINA – After this weekend’s frigid weather SaskEnergy set a natural gas consumption record for the province.
In a 24-hour period on Saturday January 16th to Sunday January 17th SaskEnergy delivered 1.29 PetaJoules of natural gas to customers – a two per cent increase over the last record set on January 4th, 2015.
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SaskEnergy added that an average home uses about 105 GigaJoules of natural gas annually.
SaskEnergy says that the record-setting is happening so frequently because new customers are being added daily.
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