Green Highland Renewables is set to begin work on a hydropower scheme at Loch Eilde Mor, in the hills above Kinlochleven, the Scottish hydropower developer announced this week.
Work on the £13.6m project, which is funded by the hydroelectric specialist's owners, Ancala Renewables, will start later this month, the company said. It added that the 2MW scheme would see £10,000 of funding provided to a new Kinlochleven Community Trust.
Green Highland Renewables said the project is just one of several it is looking to develop across the Highlands.
"This is a really exciting project and marks the start of an extremely busy two years for our firm," said Mark Mathieson, chief executive officer for Green Highland Renewables, in a statement.
Over the past four years, the firm has invested £62m to construct and commission 25 schemes in the Highlands, with capacity totalling 17MW. The firm has already committed £25m this year and is confident its pipeline will deliver significant benefits for the region's economy.
"We have well over a dozen active schemes in our build pipeline with further investment to come, and the nature of our projects means the majority of expenditure goes on civil engineering, much of which is carried out by local firms," said Mathieson.
However, he warned that recent government cuts to financial incentives for small scale hydro projects through the feed-in tariff scheme means "next to zero" new schemes will come forward for construction in the Highlands from 2018 onwards.
"It will be the end of an era," he predicted.
In other Scottish renewables news, Hamburg-based wind turbine manufacturer Senvion has signed a deal with renewable energy project developer RES to supply 11 of its MM82 turbines to the Freasdail Wind Farm on the West Coast of Scotland.
The delivery of the first turbines to the 23MW wind farm, which is set to produce enough electricity to power over 12,000 homes a year, is scheduled for autumn 2016. The deal included a five year maintenance contract for Senvion, with the option to extend for another five years.
"We are delighted to be signing our second turbine contract with RES in the UK, building on what is a solid partnership between the two companies," said Raymond Gilfedder, managing director of Senvion Northern Europe, in a statement.
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