The Dynamo House. Dawyck Botanic Gardens, Stobo, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
The hydro-electric scheme at Dawyck Botanic Garden, Stobo, near Peebles is now generating enough electricity to power 25 family homes. Since the scheme opened in May 2014, Dawyck, which is the first carbon neutral botanic garden in the UK, has increased its power generation from 100KWh to 239KWh per day. The average Scottish home uses around 14KWh per day. The scheme, which benefitted from a £30,000 grant from the EDF Energy’s Green Fund in 2014, provides enough electricity to power both the Dawyck Visitor Centre and the year-round maintenance of the Garden’s infrastructure. Surplus electricity is being sold back to the National Grid at times of low demand. Dawyck Botanic Garden is a botanic garden and arboretum covering 25 hectares (62 acres) at Stobo on the B712, 8 miles (13 kilometres) south of Peebles in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland, OS ref. NT168352. The garden is situated in the Upper Tweed Valley, a National Scenic Area. The Veitch family planted the garden at Dawyck House in the 17th century until the Naesmith family took over in 1691. Sir John Murray Naesmith supported plant-hunting expeditions, especially those undertaken by the explorer and plant hunter David Douglas (1799–1834). In 1897 the Balfour family acquired the Dawyck Estate, and in 1978 they gave the Garden to the Royal Botanic Garden, with the exception of Dawyck House and chapel which remain in private use.
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Location: Dawyck Botanic Gardens, Stobo, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
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Keywords: arboretum, borders, botanical, dawyck, dynamo, electric, gardens, horticulture, house, hydro, hydro-electric, peebles, peebles-shire, scheme, scottish, stobo
