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The Glendoe Hydro Scheme for the generation of hydro-electric power is located near Fort Augustus, above Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. The scheme is operated by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) and was opened on 29 June 2009 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. ==Scheme details== Glendoe's 600 m head (the drop from the reservoir to the turbine) is the highest of any hydro electric scheme in the United Kingdom,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Project Overview ) 〕 and is thus ideally suited to generating large amounts of energy from the stored water in the reservoir, especially when combined with the relatively high annual rainfall in the area of around 2,000 mm. The Andritz six-jet vertical axis Pelton turbine at Glendoe〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.waterpowermagazine.com/features/featureglendoe-returns )〕 is capable of generating up to 100 MW, with a peak flow of 18.6m³/s. It is the largest of Scotland's recent civil engineering projects, with Hochtief as the design and build contractor. The scheme is predicted to produce about 180 GWh〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sse.com/Glendoe/Information/ )〕 of electricity per year, enough to provide approximately 5% of the electricity consumption of the city of Glasgow. This gives an overall load factor of approximately 20%. The immediate catchment of 15 km² is supplemented by a further 60 km² connected to the scheme by an underground network of pipes and tunnels, and this is fed into the reservoir on the upper reaches of the River Tarff. The dam, a 905-metre-long concrete-faced rock-filled embankment reaching a height of 35 metres above the valley floor, is hidden from view from all current houses and public roads in the area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reservoir and Dam Information ) 〕 The scheme includes a number of tunnels. An 8.6 km tunnel brings water from diversion intakes to the reservoir. An 8 km long 5m diameter tunnel carries the water to the turbine and out into Loch Ness. This was excavated by a 220m long tunnel boring machine (TBM), that was named "Eliza Jane" after a competition for local schoolchildren.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://tunnelbuilder.com/News/Loch-Ness-Hydro-Tunnel-Makes-Breakthrough.aspx )〕 Finally, an access tunnel of 1.3 km in length services the turbine and power station cavern, from the B862 above Fort Augustus. The power station itself, 2 km from Loch Ness and containing the turbine and generator units, is housed in a large cavern a quarter of a kilometre below the hillside, adjacent to a smaller cavern containing the main transformer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glendoe Hydro Scheme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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