A View to the Future Photograph by Toby Smith, Getty Images Reportage The water catchment and power station at the cliff base in Loch Leathan replaced an expensive diesel generation system on the Isle of Skye it was built in 1949. Skye, in the northwest, embodied the idea of the remote areas Britain hoped to reach with its hydro program; it was not connected to the mainland until a bridge opened in 1995. Although hydropower still makes up the largest share of Great Britain's renewable energy portfolio, Reeves of SSE says that will soon change. "Over time, what we're seeing is a great number of onshore and offshore wind farms, and the total output of those will outstrip hydropower," he says. "Being an island nation, we have a very good wind resource, particularly in some of the coastal areas, whereas Great Britain and Scotland are just marginal for hydro." | 
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