Powerful player at monster loch

Sadly, for hunters of the loch's elusive monster, the activity is linked to a new giant hydro electric station, which is expected to provide enough power for a city the size of Glasgow.

A Leeds-based electrical engineering firm has completed a six-figure contract to supply and install transformers and switchgear for a Loch Ness hydro electric station water tunnel. Power Engineering Services, which recently moved from Barnsley to larger premises in Horsforth, Leeds, delivered the contract in three weeks.

It is the latest of several major power industry installations completed by the 1.3m turnover firm this year.

Launched in 2000, the firm specialises in supplying high voltage switchgear and transformers, and has seen steady growth over the past decade. The business was bought by the husband and wife team Mark and Elaine Wray, right, in a management buyout at the firm in April this year. Power Engineering Services now has a list of blue chip clients in England and Northern Ireland, ranging from Harland & Wolfe, in Belfast, to leading supermarket chains.