Foyers Pumped Storage
Foyers Pumped Storage is a 300 MW pumped-storage station in Scotland, operated by SSE Group. The UK government lists it as operational in its register of power stations (DUKES table 5.11, May 2025).
- Pumped hydro
- Scotland
Key facts
- Installed capacity
- 300 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Technology
- Pumped hydro
- Operator
- SSE Group
- Region
- Scotland
- Country
- Scotland
- Grid connection (DUKES)
- HV
- Combined heat & power
- No
- Coordinates
- 57.2618, -4.4828
Location
Map position from the published coordinates. For small sites this can be an approximate point rather than the exact boundary. Map Β© OpenStreetMap contributors.
How Foyers Pumped Storage compares
Pumped-storage stations work like giant batteries: they pump water uphill into a reservoir when electricity is cheap or plentiful and release it through turbines when demand is high.
All UK hydro schemes and pumped-storage stations Hydro schemes and pumped-storage stations in Scotland All run by SSE GroupNearby generating sites
- Foyers Falls Power Station Β· 5.2 MW hydroelectric station1.8 km
- River E Β· 3 MW small hydro scheme3.7 km
- Garrogie Β· 2.4 MW small hydro scheme8.4 km
- Corriegarth Β· 69.5 MW onshore wind farm10.9 km
- Livishie Power Station - A Β· 15 MW hydroelectric station10.9 km
- Bhlaraidh Wind Farm Β· 110 MW onshore wind farm13.1 km
- Dunmaglass Wind Farm Β· 94.1 MW onshore wind farm13.7 km
- Stronelairg Wind Farm Β· 228 MW onshore wind farm15.2 km
Also operated by SSE Group
SSE Group operates 127 sites in the register. Largest first:
- Peterhead Β· gas-fired power station1,180 MW
- Seagreen Β· offshore wind farm1,075 MW
- Keadby 2 Β· gas-fired power station840 MW
- Medway Β· gas-fired power station755 MW
- Keadby Β· CCGT gas power station735 MW
- Beatrice Offshore windfarm Β· offshore wind farm588 MW
- Greater Gabbard Β· offshore wind farm504 MW
- Viking Wind Farm Β· onshore wind farm443 MW
Planning history
From the government's Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), matched to this site by location, capacity and name.
- Planning status
- Operational
- Site name in planning record
- Foyers
- Developer / operator
- SSE Renewables
- Planning authority
- Highland
- Construction started
- 1 January 1969
- Began operating
- 1 January 1974
- Capacity in planning record
- 300 MW
- Address
- Highland, Highland, IV2 6YE
- REPD reference
- 6842
Source
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), table 5.11: power stations in the United Kingdom β operational at end of May 2025.
Capacity is installed capacity as published, not current output. Status reflects the source date, not live operation.
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Last checked by Octary: 15 July 2026
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