The Renewables Project (Schotland, 2010)
With its rough seas, windswept hills and large amount of precipitation, Britain has more potential kinetic energy up for grabs than in any other landscape. Within this, the concentration of energy is nowhere higher than in Scotland.
Electricity has been generated here by the hydroelectric power stations in the glens for more than sixty years. In the harsh winter of 2010, Toby Smith drove a converted four-wheel drive, in which he slept, past these feats of British engineering. Many of the installations were built just after the Second World War and now inadvertently supply a crucial share of Britain’s renewable energy.
