SaskPower provides power to their hundreds of thousands of customers every day and recently reported on the challenges, successes, and constant maintenance that filled their 2018-19 year.

On Friday, SaskPower released their annual report, and pulled back the curtain, offering a look into the Crown corporation's goings on.

Over the last year, SaskPower has amassed a net income of $197 million, which is an increase from the 2017-18 year. Their return on equity for that sum was 7.9 percent.

Along with their income, they also invested $833 million into infrastructure throughout Saskatchewan.

The Minister Responsible for SaskPower, Dustin Duncan, outlined some of the factors that they were dealing with throughout the year.

"Federal greenhouse gas emission regulations have eliminated one of our provinces primary baseload power sources, conventional coal," he said at a press conference. "SaskPower needs to integrate cleaner sources of power into the system, and like all electric utilities, Saskatchewan has an aging power grid that needs to be maintained."

He said that dropping coal is putting SaskPower well on their way towards a goal of theirs.

"The goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. This will meet and exceed the federal goal of a 30 percent reduction by the same date."

Projects the organization has on the go were also included in the report. Covered projects include Saskatchewan's first utility-scale solar project near Swift Current which will be a 10-megawatt facility, a 200 Megawatt wind farm near Assiniboia, as well as importing an additional 215 megawatts of power from Manitoba Hydro.

During the past year, SaskPower also found themselves awarded as one of Canada's best employers, diversity employers, and a top employer for young people.

Present at the media press conference was SaskPower CEO, Mike Marsh.

He commented that his organization was trying to cut down on power outages caused by various factors such as old infrastructure, animals, and weather.

He explained the process they go through when selecting areas to help protect against factors which caused outages.

"We target areas of the province where we're seeing abnormally hight failures due to infrastructure," Marsh said. "Part of our infrastructure investment is then targeted at those areas."

Marsh says they will continue to make investments towards power in the province, which will take significantly more dollars to maintain and increase reliability.