Station ยท hydro
Lairg
Lairg is a 3.5 MW small hydro power station, in North Scotland, operated by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).
- Capacity
- 4 MW
- nameplate
- Fuel
- Hydro
- Small Hydro
- Hydro rank
- #72
- of 188 by capacity
- DNO region
- North Scotland
Output
No live feed - Lairg is distribution-connected (embedded), so the grid operator has no real-time metering of it; this page shows capacity only, honestly. Live output exists only for the 113 transmission-metered plants. What is embedded generation?
Details
- Operator
- Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
- Technology
- Small Hydro
- Country
- Scotland
- Coordinates
- 58.029, -4.415
- Data source
- DESNZ REPD
Fleet data as of 2026-08-15. See it in context on the station map.