His idea was to create cheaper energy for the Highlands and Islands with the surplus produced being sold to the South for a profit.
ROBERT LESLIE looks back at how electricity developed in Orkney and wonders, after almost a century, if we have now come full circle to a point where local ownership could secure a brighter future for the islands
His idea was to create cheaper energy for the Highlands and Islands with the surplus produced being sold to the South for a profit.
The £250,000 power station was 154 feet long and 79 feet wide. Constructed by Orkney Builders using local stone and reclaiming land from the Peedie Sea, it would be powered by diesel oil.
