Killin hydro scheme

Killin hydro scheme is a 63 MW group of hydro stations in Glen Lyon and Glen Lochay, west of Killin, operated or mostly owned by SSE. Is it running right now? Its live output from Elexon, the GB electricity market's data service, and every half hour of the last week.

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About Killin hydro scheme

Killin hydro scheme is a group of hydro stations in Glen Lyon and Glen Lochay, west of Killin. Its three stations, Lubreoch, Cashlie and Lochay, were commissioned in 1958 and 1959. Its stations are traded as one unit, so their output shows here as one.

Elexon registers its one balancing mechanism unit at 70 MW, but DUKES 5.11, the government's list of power stations, gives it 63 MW, and that is the capacity this page uses. Every half hour each unit tells the grid how much it will generate (its physical notification): that is the live figure above, and GridMonkey records it every half hour for the chart.

Hydro stations run on rivers and reservoirs, most of them in the Scottish Highlands. How much they generate depends on the rain and on when the grid needs them.

Killin hydro scheme
Where Killin hydro scheme is. DUKES 5.11's grid reference for Lochay is about 3 km out, so the map uses OpenStreetMap's position for Lochay power station, the largest of the three. Map outline: Natural Earth.
TypeHydro
Capacity63 MW (DUKES 5.11)
Registered capacity70 MW (Elexon)
Stations commissioned1958–1959 (DUKES 5.11)
Its stationsLubreoch, Cashlie and Lochay
AreaStirling and Perth and Kinross
LocationIn Glen Lyon and Glen Lochay, west of Killin
56.485° N, 4.364° W
Owner or operatorSSE
Elexon lead partySSE Generation Ltd
BM unit M_CAS-KIL01 70 MW
Size10th largest of the 15 hydro power stations on GridMonkey's list

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Contains BMRS data © Elexon Limited copyright and database right 2026 (licence). Station names, areas and owners or operators come from GridMonkey's own table, matched to the units in Elexon's register; a station's output here is its physical notification, not metered generation. Capacity, stations and years commissioned: Power stations in the United Kingdom (DUKES 5.11) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, May 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Map position: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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