'Hollow Mountain' power: Drax starts planning for second pumped hydro storage station inside Scottish peak

Cecilia Keating
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Proposed 600MW plant would be built next to existing pumped hydro station inside Argyll’s highest mountain and help provide critical balancing services to grid

Drax has announced it has started the planning process for a new underground power plant at its existing pumped storage hydro power station in Argyll that will more than double the facility's generating...

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