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Coire Glas hydroelectric plant
6th-largest grid storage in United Kingdom of 12 · top 15% worldwide (#144 of 965)
- Owner
- SSE Renewables
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 1,500 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Commissioned
- 2031
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · United Kingdom · 12 ranked
- #1Dinorwig hydroelectric plant2.0 GW
- #4Loch Fearna hydroelectric plant1.8 GW
- #5Balliemeanoch hydroelectric plant1.5 GW
- #6Coire Glas hydroelectric plant1.5 GW
- #7Loch na Cathrach hydroelectric plant450 MW
- #8Cruachan hydroelectric plant440 MW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Fort Augustus Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 18 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Line operator
- SSE Power Distribution
- Substations in range
- 2
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Coire Glas hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 1.5 GW · hydro
- Scottish-Hydro Invergarry-Stornoway8.1 km · Transmission Line
- Beinneun wind farm9.6 km · Power Plant · 109 MW · wind
- Loch Fearna hydroelectric plant13 km · Power Plant · 1.8 GW · hydro
- Loch Fearna hydroelectric plant13 km · Grid Storage · 1.8 GW
- Beauly-Denny Power Line18 km · Transmission Line
- 400 kV line18 km · Transmission Line
- Fort Augustus Substation18 km · Substation / Converter
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)