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The reservoir has a catchment area of 23 square kilometres (8.9 sq mi), [3] and is capable of holding seven Gigawatt hours of energy. [4] The water level in the reservoir can fluctuate by as much as 10 metres (33 ft) a day due to the operation of the power station. [5]
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 .
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 .
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 ...
If built, the project will be the largest pumped-hydro scheme in Scotland, storing 45GWh of energy, equating to 30 hours of generation at the maximum capacity of 1.5GW. [ 2 ] Like the nearby Cruachan Power Station , the project would use the 40km long Loch Awe as the lower 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 ...
Cruachan Dam A hydropower station at Ben Cruachan Cruachan, the name of a Shetland pony as mascot of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (now of the Royal Regiment of Scotland ) Cruachan! is the battle cry for Highland clans Campbell and MacIntyre