Peedie Sea, Orkney Islands

Kirkwall Power station

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This is the rear of the building and shows the storage tanks once used to oil-fuel the powerful and very noisy turbines. No longer generating power to the homes of Orkney but it has been developed over recent years. Now housing an installation and connection to the grid of a 2MW Energy Storage System (ESS) utilising MHI

Uploaded to Geograph by Derek Mayes on 12 January 2016

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