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Cruachan Hydro Expansion
REPD record 9227. Status: Planning Permission Granted.
Facts
As published by REPD, release Q3 2026.
- Technology
- Pumped Storage Hydroelectricity
- Capacity
- 600 MW
- Status
- Planning Permission Granted
- Operator
- Drax Power Limited & Stantec UK
- County
- Strathclyde
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Planning authority
- Scottish Government (S36)
- Planning reference
- ECU00004492
- Turbines
- not held by REPD
- Turbine size
- not held by REPD
- Record last updated in REPD
- 2025-05-12
Status history
Dated status events as published by REPD, release Q3 2026.
- 2022-05-12: Planning Application Submitted
- 2023-07-21: Planning Permission Granted
- 2030-07-21: Planning Permission Expired
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Source: DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), release Q3 2026. Record 9227. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Positions on the map come from REPD's own grid references.