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Written Question · S2W-31952 · Session 2

Which hydro power schemes have downgraded from a capacity exceeding 20 megawatts to a capacity below 20 megawatts since 1999, also stating …

Answered Asked by Murdo Fraser Con Lodged 22 Feb 2007

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive which hydro power schemes have downgraded from a capacity exceeding 20 megawatts to a capacity below 20 megawatts since 1999, also stating when this occurred and the company involved.

The answer

Answered by Nicol Stephen on 8 Mar 2007 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

The following eight hydropower schemes reduced their capacity from above 20 megawatts to below 20megawatts before 1 April 2002, when the Renewables Obligation (Scotland) cameinto force.
Hydro Station
| Owner

Culligran
| Scottish and Southern Energy

Finlarig
| Scottish and Southern Energy

Grudie Bridge
| Scottish and Southern Energy

Kinlochleven
| Alcan

Mossford
| Scottish and Southern Energy

Quoich
| Scottish and Southern Energy

Shin
| Scottish and Southern Energy

St Fillans
| Scottish and Southern Energy

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-31952 by reference.