Conjet cleans up at Glenlee power station The 12MW Glenlee hydro-electric power station in Scotland is part of the 106.5MW Galloway Hydro-Electric power scheme, which was the first large scale integrated hydro-electricity supply complex in the UK when it was built and commissioned in the mid 1930s. A 60km long network of lochs, dams, tunnels, aquaducts, pipelines and rivers interconnect six power stations in a cascade system, which reuses the water several times for power generation. Each station reuses the water that has been discharged by the one above to generate electricity. A dam blocks the natural outflow of Loch Doon and acts as the main storage reservoir at the top of the scheme, which has a drop of 210m over its length. Case stories APPLIED WATERJET TECHNOLOGY CON

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