Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney visited Drax Group’s Cruachan ‘Hollow Mountain’ Power Station, near Oban in Argyll, on Monday to see progress on an £80 million upgrade and refurbishment of the iconic pumped storage hydro plant. Carved into the interior of Ben Cruachan, the plant was the first large-scale reversible pumped storage hydro facility in the world when it was opened by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1965. Today it continues to p…
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