Conon hydro scheme
The Conon scheme lies within the northwest Highlands, broadly between Inverness and Ullapool.
Electricity generation started here when the Ross-shire Electricity Supply Company built the small Falls of Conon hydro electric power station in the 1920s.
Number of power stations
Total combined generation capacity
MW
Power stations
Power stations | Capacity (MW) | Gross head (metres) | Average annual output (million units) | Year completed |
Achanalt | 3 | 20 | 7 | 1956 |
Grudie Bridge | 18.6 | 168 | 87 | 1950 |
Mossford | 18.6 | 161 | 121 | 1957 |
Luichart | 34 | 56 | 135 | 1954 |
Orrin | 18 | 222 | 80 | 1959 |
Torr Achilty | 15 | 16 | 42 | 1954 |
Major dams
Major dam | Type | Length | Height | Comp |
Glascarnoch | Concrete gravity and earth fill | 534 | 43 | 1957 |
Vaich | Earth fill with concrete core | 257 | 37 | 1957 |
Luichart | Mass gravity | 219 | 24 | 1954 |
Meig | Concrete gravity, buttress and earth fill | 178 | 26 | 1956 |
Torr Achilty | Mass gravity | 246 | 23 | 1953 |
Orrin | Mass gravity | 312 | 51 | 1959 |