Green energy partially powering Lanarkshire Scottish Water treatment

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A Scottish Water treatment works in South Lanarkshire is partially powering itself thanks to green energy. An array of 560 solar photovoltaic (PV) panels at Skellyton near Larkhall is now online producing more than 20 per cent of the electricity needed to operate the facility.

Generating over 150MWh each year the carbon-reducing technology will also contribute around 12 per cent of the generated electricity to the national grid.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Local Waste Water Treatment Works Team Leader Stevie Heatley told Lanarkshire Live: “We are now generating the same amount of energy needed to boil a kettle 1.5 million times or watch a million hours of television. “The new installation will help us achieve a cut in carbon dioxide emissions associated with Skellyton by over 20 tonnes a year and sets us on the path to energy self-sufficiency.”Installed by Scotland-based company, Absolute Solar and Wind, the PV panels have been positioned in an area of scrub, brownfield land within the boundaries of the existing works.Ian Piggott, Senior Project Manager at Scottish Water Horizons, said: