The ILI Group has initiated the preliminary planning phase of the 600MW Corrievarkie Pumped Storage Hydropower Project in the Scottish Highlands. The new project at Loch Ericht in Dalwhinnie will be able to provide up to 24 hours of electricity, enough to power 1.4 million homes, making it one of Scotland's largest projects.

The project will build a new "head pond" on the hill above "Loch Ericht", which can hold 22 million cubic meters of water when full. CEO Mark Wilson said that if completed, the plan will help offset more than 83 million tons of carbon dioxide over its entire life cycle. He added that it will also help "further deploy renewable energy sources and reduce dependence on fossil fuel generators."

“It’s hard to overstate the importance of long-term storage projects like this to the UK, because we are seeing an increase in the impact of global climate change. The recent IPCC report on climate change is frustrating and is another alarm for world leaders, namely Now we need to take further measures to avoid disasters." He said, "The British government has recognized the need to take action and released a smart system and flexibility plan for 2021. At the same time, we have also fully participated in the July long-term storage evidence call."

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There are currently more than 5GW of pumped storage pipelines in the UK. By 2026, the UK government will put the market mechanism in place to start these projects. This will be an excellent statement of intent.Editor/Baohongying