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The Cruachan Power Station (also known as the Cruachan Dam) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK.The scheme can provide 440 MW of power and produced 705 GWh in 2009.
Solar power is a relatively young segment in the energy industry of Sri Lanka. As of 2015, only a few grid-connected solar farms were operational, including a state-run facility. Despite at least half a dozen private companies applying for development permits for photovoltaic and solar thermal projects, [ 24 ] most have not actually commenced ...
It is the upper reservoir for the Cruachan Power Station pumped-storage scheme. It was the filming location for Andor Episode 6, The Eye, [2] standing in as an Imperial infrastructure project, containing a vault. It was created in the 1960s, and is contained by a dam 316 metres (1,037 ft) long. [1] [3]
Although claimed to be the first such station in the world when it opened in 1965 by the Visit Cruachan website, Drax Group PLC's Cruachan Power Station [15] was preceded by the Ffestiniog Power Station in North Wales, which opened in 1963, [16] and on a smaller scale by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board's Sron Mor power station opened ...
The Victoria Dam on 15 April 2011, three days after its 26th anniversary of opening Randenigala Dam in 2013 Upstream view of the Kotmale Dam Open spillways of the Rajanganaya Dam Irrigation dams with a length and height of more than 100 m (330 ft) and 10 m (33 ft) are listed, including all the state-run hydroelectric power stations.
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The power station of the Randenigala Dam. The power station is located immediately downstream of the dam, on the left bank . Water from the reservoir is delivered to the power station via a single steel-lined tunnel with a length and diameter of 270 m (886 ft) and 6.2 m (20.3 ft) respectively.
900 MW Lakvijaya Power Station. Thermal power stations in Sri Lanka now roughly match the installed hydroelectric generation capacity, with a share of nearly 49% of the available capacity in December 2013 and 40% of power generated in 2013. [9] Thermal power stations in Sri Lanka runs on diesel, other fuel oils, naptha or coal. [9]