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Sron Mor

Hydro power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. Approximate location 57.0569, -4.23.

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Sron Mor is a 4 MW hydro power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is operated by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,004 homes (estimated). It ranks #1857 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 1.9% of United Kingdom's electricity; the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).

4MW installed capacity
4,004homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0000396.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in United Kingdom

Dinorwig: 1,800 MW2kDinorwigDinorwig: 1,728 MW2kDinorwigCruachan: 440 MW440CruachanCruachan: 440 MW440CruachanFfestiniog: 360 MW360FfestiniogFoyers: 300 MW300FoyersSloy: 152 MW152SloyGlendoe: 100 MW100Glendoe

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE). All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a subpolar oceanic climate (Köppen Cfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 57.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

5.2°Cannual mean temp
4,667heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
613 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 0 °CFM: 1 °CMA: 4 °CAM: 7 °CMJ: 10 °CJJ: 12 °CJA: 11 °CAS: 9 °CSO: 6 °CON: 2 °CND: 1 °CD12 °C

Heating degree-days here run 90% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 92/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #54 largest hydro power plant of 119 in United Kingdom by capacity.

United Kingdom has 119 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 6,365 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 57.0569, -4.23 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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