{"id":"2026-oct-continuation-north-sse-invergarry-hydro-anniversary","canonicalSlug":"2026-oct-continuation-north-sse-invergarry-hydro-anniversary","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct-continuation-north-sse-invergarry-hydro-anniversary","language":"en","title":"Scotland’s Invergarry hydro station marks 70 years of operation","summary":"SSE says the station, officially opened on 5 October 1956, remains active in the Great Glen Hydro Scheme.","body":["SSE marked 70 years since Invergarry Power Station officially opened on 5 October 1956. The station is part of the wider Great Glen Hydro Scheme and was built within a network of hydro-electric stations linked by the Highland Grid, which carries renewable power from remote areas to communities in northern Scotland.","SSE says Invergarry remains an active part of its hydro fleet, but the anniversary notice gives no current capacity or generation figure for the station. The company says the wider Scottish hydro programme built 54 power stations and 78 dams, an account of the programme’s historic scale rather than a measure of Invergarry alone."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"Scotland’s Invergarry hydro station marks 70 years of operation\n\nSSE says the station, officially opened on 5 October 1956, remains active in the Great Glen Hydro Scheme.\n\nSSE marked 70 years since Invergarry Power Station officially opened on 5 October 1956. The station is part of the wider Great Glen Hydro Scheme and was built within a network of hydro-electric stations linked by the Highland Grid, which carries renewable power from remote areas to communities in northern Scotland.\n\nSSE says Invergarry remains an active part of its hydro fleet, but the anniversary notice gives no current capacity or generation figure for the station. The company says the wider Scottish hydro programme built 54 power stations and 78 dams, an account of the programme’s historic scale rather than a measure of Invergarry alone.","category":"energy","region":"world","topics":["power"],"eventDate":"2026-10-05","eventDateBasis":"70th anniversary of Invergarry Power Station’s official opening on 5 October 1956, as reported by SSE","publishedAt":"2026-10-10T16:38:29Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-10T16:38:29Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-10T16:38:20Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-08","translatedAt":"2026-10-10T16:25:08Z","sources":[{"url":"https://www.sse.com/news-and-views/2026/09/70-years-of-clean-renewable-power-from-invergarry-power-station/","name":"SSE","checkedAt":"2026-10-10","attribution":"SSE, “70 years of clean, renewable power from Invergarry Power Station,” published 8 October 2026. No open licence was identified. This is an original factual summary; no source prose or media is reproduced.","publishedAt":"2026-10-08"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct-continuation-north-sse-invergarry-hydro-anniversary","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/2026-oct-continuation-north-sse-invergarry-hydro-anniversary","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/2026-oct-continuation-north-sse-invergarry-hydro-anniversary","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/2026-oct-continuation-north-sse-invergarry-hydro-anniversary","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/2026-oct-continuation-north-sse-invergarry-hydro-anniversary","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/2026-oct-continuation-north-sse-invergarry-hydro-anniversary","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/2026-oct-continuation-north-sse-invergarry-hydro-anniversary"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["industry-event"],"geographies":[{"role":"event-location","countryCode":"GB","subdivisionCode":"GB-SCT"},{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"GB","subdivisionCode":"GB-SCT"}],"evidenceBasis":["reported-observation"],"measurementPeriod":null}}