RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS
The terrain of the Pairc Estate is ideally laid out for a number of significant renewable energy projects, and the Pairc Trust is working to ensure that residents of the Estate get the best possible benefits from any developments.
PUMPED Storage Hydro
In 2019 the Pairc Trust received funding from Local Energy Scotland's CARES Innovation Fund to look at whether the Pairc Estate is suitable for a Pumped Storage Hydo Scheme. The Trust commissioned a feasibility study with AECOM to assess the suitability of such a scheme.
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A site to the south of the estate has been identified as having the right landscape to provide the ‘drop’ required for Pumped Storage energy generation. All PSH schemes have similar operating principals – they require a head-pond and a tail-pond. Water is pumped up to and stored in the head-pond and on release, the water will travel to the tail-pond, through a turbine and generate electricity.
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Loch Sgibacleit on the Pairc Estate has been identified as a suitable tail-pond and the hills to the north west as a site for the head-pond.
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The Trust is continuing to explore this exciting opportunity.
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Eurowind Energy are in the design stages of planning an onshore wind farm on the private Eishken Estate to the south of Pairc, building out of the older consented Muaitheabhal plans. They plan for up to 25 turbines generating ~189MW of power.
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The Pairc Trust is in discussions with Eurowind which would require the upgrade of roads on Pairc land, and ways in which the Pairc Estate can benefit from this development.
