🔌 Stornoway power station

Stornoway power station, also known as Battery Point Power Station, is an electrical generation facility in Stornoway, Scotland. It was commissioned in 1954 to supply power to the Western Isles. The station has eight Mirrlees Blackstone medium speed diesel generators with a combined output of 25.5MW. The station is owned and operated by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), part of SSE plc. The Western Isles power network was originally operated independently of the Scottish mainland network.