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In June 2021, Drax applied to build a further 600 MW pumped storage system using the same reservoir, to a combined 1 GW for seven hours of storage. [21] Approval was granted in July 2023, and Drax intended to complete the project in 2030. [22] Several financing modes are possible [23] for the £500M project. Seismic surveys began in June 2024. [24]
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 ...
Drax confirmed that approval had been granted on 1 January 2019. The acquisition brings with it Cruachan pumped storage power station, Rye House power station, Damhead Creek power station, Galloway hydro-electric power scheme, Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme, Shoreham Power Station and Blackburn Mill power station. [14]
The following page lists all pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations that are larger than 1,000 MW in installed generating capacity, which are currently operational or under construction. Those power stations that are smaller than 1,000 MW , and those that are decommissioned or only at a planning/proposal stage may be found in regional ...
The Shira Hydro-Electric Scheme, completed in 1957, and situated immediately to the west of the Sloy scheme, included Sron Mor power station, which was the first major implementation of pumped storage in Britain. Although it was a fairly small-scale station, the Board were keen that operational data for it should be collected, in view of its ...
Coire Glas power station is a proposed 1.3GW pumped storage hydroelectric power station in the Scottish Highlands. If built, it will double the UK's ability to store energy for long periods. If built, it will double the UK's ability to store energy for long periods.
The 450 MW Loch na Cathrach (formerly called Red John) Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme to the southeast of Dores. [29] [30] [31] It would involve a new upper reservoir constructed near Loch Duntelchaig. The scheme was developed by Intelligent Land Investments Group and acquired by Statkraft at the end of 2023. [32]
The scheme remained a public asset for several decades, until the privatisation of the energy industry. From 1990 it was owned by Scottish Power, but in 2018 Drax Group plc acquired the Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme when it purchased Scottish Power's hydro and pumped storage assets from Iberdrola. [15]