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News 23 Jun 2023

New Biography Sheds Light on the 'Engineering Genius' Behind Scotland's Hydro-Electric Revolution

To mark the 80th anniversary of the law that brought hydro-electricity to the Scottish Highlands a new biography of Edward ‘Electricity’ MacColl has been published.

News 02 May 2023

Ground broken at new visitor attraction at Pitlochry Dam

Construction work on Pitlochry’s latest visitor attraction is underway with energy company SSE Renewables appointing construction group Story as the main contractor for its new Observation Point at Pitlochry Dam and Power Station.

News 13 Oct 2022

Celebrating Fasnakyle at 70

Situated within the Affric-Beauly Hydro Scheme, about 16 kilometres to the west of Inverness, our Fasnakyle Power Station is celebrating seven decades of delivering renewable energy in the Scottish Highlands today.

News 05 Sep 2022

Plans for new viewing point at Pitlochry Dam unveiled

Presentation boards detailing plans for a new viewing point at Pitlochry Dam have been installed.

News 02 Aug 2017

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon opens SSE’s new £4m visitor centre

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Cabinet officially opened SSE’s new £4m Pitlochry Dam Visitor Centre in Perthshire on 6 February 2017.

News 01 May 2017

Can the Common Scoter live up to its name?

You might be forgiven for thinking that a bird named the Common Scoter didn’t need our help, but you’d sadly be very wrong.

News 27 Feb 2017

Meet the man with the vision for the new visitor centre

Craig Steven, Director of BSP ltd. Chartered Architects has worked with SSE on a number of different projects and was delighted to be invited to design their new Visitor Centre in Pitlochry.

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