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Innovative ‘dual-sided’ solar scheme at Aberdeenshire treatment site
An innovative solar PV scheme has been installed at a Scottish Water site to support the drive towards net zero emissions. Over 1,800 solar PV panels, comprising double-sided ‘bifacial’ and standard modules, are now powering Fraserburgh’s waste water treatment works in Aberdeenshire. The technology will offset around 30% of the…
01 June 2022 -
Council commits to reduce carbon ‘food-print’
A Scots council has renewed a two-year contract to send its food waste to Scotland’s first large-scale recycling facility to be used to generate renewable energy. East Dunbartonshire Council has committed to continue sending waste to Scottish Water Horizons’ Deerdykes Bioresources Centre near Cumbernauld where it undergoes anaerobic digestion –…
04 May 2022 -
Celebrating 10 years of solar power
This winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, Scottish Water is marking the days getting longer by celebrating a decade of solar power production. In 2011, we installed our first solar photo voltaic (PV) scheme at Penwhirn Water Treatment Works in Dumfries and Galloway. Since then we have invested…
21 December 2021 -
Construction work completed at Clyde Gateway low carbon heat network project
Clyde Gateway, Scotland’s biggest regeneration programme, in partnership with Scottish Water Horizons, has officially completed a ground-breaking project to install one of the country’s most innovative and sustainable heating systems. The state-of-the-art district heating network at the Clyde Gateway site in Glasgow’s east end broke ground in 2020, following £2.1million…
22 November 2021 -
Ground-breaking green heating network hosts German Minister
A German energy minister visiting Scotland for COP26 has praised Stirling’s pioneering low carbon District Heating Network during a special visit. Head of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and Energy Sector, Minister Thekla Walker toured the facility in Stirling on Monday (8 Nov). The £6 million ground-breaking…
11 November 2021 -
Major solar scheme for Aberdeen in net zero drive
An ambitious solar energy scheme to help power two main service reservoirs supplying water to Aberdeen has been completed. The scheme, located in Cults, Aberdeenshire, has been fitted out with over 1,700 solar photovoltaic (PV) panels with a generating capacity of 0.52 GWh of energy each year to support Scottish…
21 October 2021
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