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Cruachan Reservoir is a reservoir in Scotland. It is located to the north west of Loch Awe, in a corrie beneath Ben Cruachan. 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.
The turbine hall is located inside Ben Cruachan, and the scheme moves water between Cruachan Reservoir and Loch Awe, a height difference of 396 m (1,299 ft). It is one of only four pumped storage power stations in the United Kingdom, and is capable of providing a black start capability to the National Grid .
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The catchment for the reservoir is 8.9 square miles (23 km 2), achieved by constructing a network of around 12 miles (19 km) of tunnels to capture the headwaters of numerous streams. [24] A tunnel to the south-east of the dam intercepts the Allt Lorgaidh, while one to the south-west picks up water from several streams that flow into the River Awe.
Ben Cruachan (Scottish Gaelic: Cruachan Beann) [3] is a mountain that rises to 1,126 metres (3,694 ft), the highest in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It gives its name to the Cruachan Dam, a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station located in a cavern inside the mountain. It is the high point of a ring of mountains, known as the Cruachan ...
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Topograhic map of site of Balliemeanoch pumped storage hydro project. Lochan Airigh is the most easterly body of water, located in a valley which would be dammed to create the upper reservoir Lochan Airigh viewed from the North West, lying in a wide valley that would contain the upper reservoir
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 ...