Work to build Drax’s new pumped storage hydro power station could begin as soon as 2024 and entails removing a million tonnes of rock from inside Ben Cruachan. It would create hundreds of jobs.
The project would more than double the electricity generating capacity at the facility in Scotland. The 600MW power station will be located inside Ben Cruachan – Argyll’s highest mountain – and increase the site’s total capacity to 1.04GW.The new power station would be built within a new, hollowed-out cavern which would be large enough to fit Big Ben on its side, to the east of Drax’s existing 440MW pumped storage hydro station.
More than a million tonnes of rock would be excavated to create the cavern and other parts of the power station. The existing upper reservoir, which can hold 2.4 billion gallons of water, has the capacity to serve both power stations - link
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