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Cruachan hydroelectric plant
8th-largest grid storage in United Kingdom of 12 · top 70% worldwide (#673 of 965)
- Operator
- Drax
- Owner
- Drax
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 440 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Commissioned
- 1965
- 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
- #6Coire Glas hydroelectric plant1.5 GW
- #7Loch na Cathrach hydroelectric plant450 MW
- #8Cruachan hydroelectric plant440 MW
- #9Glenmuckloch hydroelectric plant400 MW
- #10Ffestiniog hydroelectric plant384 MW
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Cruachan hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 440 MW · hydro
- Balliemeanoch hydroelectric plant4.8 km · Power Plant · 1.5 GW · hydro
- Balliemeanoch hydroelectric plant4.8 km · Grid Storage · 1.5 GW
- Loch Awe - Eredine wind farm24 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · wind
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)