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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 .
Despite the fact that some of the headwaters of the River Noe are captured to feed Cruachan Reservoir, RWE decided that there was still sufficient flow in the river to power a run-of-the-river hydro-electric station. Argyll and Bute Council authorised construction of the Glen Noe hydropower project in September 2016, and construction began in 2019.
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 ...
This category is for articles about reservoirs in Scotland. For lakes or lochs , see Category:Lakes of Scotland or Category:Lochs of Scotland . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in Scotland .
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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