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Bid for Green Energy at Lanarkshire Works
Scottish Water Horizons has applied for planning permission for a solar installation to power a waste water treatment works. The company proposes to install 560 photovoltaic (PV) panels at Skellyton near Larkhall to support Scottish Water’s net zero ambitions. The carbon-reducing technology will offset more than 20 per cent of…
11 April 2022 -
Innovative Partnership Offers Route to a Greener Dram
An innovative new project is ‘distilling’ residues from Scotland’s famous whisky industry into sustainable, green energy. The successful trial involving Scottish Water, SEPA and major distiller Chivas Brothers saw distillery residue brought into Aberdeen’s Nigg Waste Water Treatment Works for the first time, with promising results. ‘Cheers’ to co-digestion A…
07 April 2022 -
Battery storage first for Scottish Water in Net Zero drive
Scottish Water has completed work on its first large-scale battery storage project to accelerate its drive towards net zero emissions by 2040. The flagship scheme, delivered by framework contractor Absolute Solar & Wind Ltd, is part of a £2 million renewables project which includes the company’s largest single solar energy…
11 February 2022 -
To the moon and back (12 times) with food waste
Scotland’s first-ever large-scale food waste recycling facility is celebrating a milestone green energy achievement. Scottish Water Horizons’ Deerdykes Bioresources Centre near Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire has generated 50 GWh of green electricity – the equivalent of powering 13,500 homes for a year – since it opened in 2010. The facility…
01 February 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 photovoltaic (PV) scheme at Penwhirn Water Treatment Works in Dumfries and Galloway. Since then we have invested over…
21 December 2021 -
People Spotlight: Andrew Baker
Meet Andrew Baker! Andrew is supporting our low carbon projects as part of the Graduate Development Programme. Having joined us just a few months ago, Andrew is already making his mark! Tell us a little bit about yourself I joined Scottish Water on the Graduate Development Programme last year and…
20 December 2021
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