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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.
Nor could its height be increased, as the water levels of Loch Awe had to be maintained within close limits. Moving the barrage would also involve entending the tunnel for the power station, and the cost of this was estimated to be £475,000. [9] The third power station would be the Cruachan pumped storage station. Whereas previous ...
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 company is submitting a planning application for a new pumped storage hydro power station deep inside a Scottish mountain. Energy firm Drax ‘ready to move mountains’ for new hydro power ...
The Cruachan power station (also known as the Cruachan Dam) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station commissioned in 1965. [40] It can provide 440 MW of power and has a capacity of 7.1 GWh. Steam power stations
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 ...
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.
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.