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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 -
Employee 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 -
Keep COP26 in mind in the kitchen this Christmas
Scottish Water is urging customers to build on the momentum gained at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow and play a part in cutting carbon emissions from food waste this Christmas. Around 67 million meals go to waste in Scotland every December with 84 per cent of Scottish households…
16 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 -
Employee Spotlight: Stuart Clark
Meet Stuart Clark! Stuart has recently joined us as Project Manager to support our hydro energy projects. With an extensive background and self-professed love for all things hydroelectric, we spoke to him to find out more. What’s been your career journey up until now? I left school at 16 to…
08 November 2021
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