A £290,000 hydropower scheme has been approved in Ardfern, offering ‘the best and only chance’ of financial sustainability for a traditional hill farm.
The dam, 250m long storage reservoir, powerhouse, burn intake and buried pipeline, on land north east of Garraron Farm, was submitted by James Adam of Garraron and Melfort Farms.
The plant aims to generate 270MWh per year, the ‘equivalent to a saving in carbon dioxide production from fossil fuels of 120 tonnes per year’.