The turbine is of the Kaplan type, designed and constructed by Boving and Company of London, and develops 40,500 brake horsepower (30.2 MW).

The young salmon (smolts), eventually pass downstream either through the Inverawe hydro power station or the barrage structure.

The hydro station features a slow rotating Kaplan turbine, which delays the passage of smolts, discourages descent, and increases predation by fish such as pike and brown trout.

Both Inverawe power station and the associated Awe Barrage were constructed by the North of Scotland Hydro Electricity Board during the late 1950s/early 1960s.

It was built by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board before transferring into the ownership of Scottish Power, where it remained for many years.

One of the oldest Argyll clans, the Macarthurs, owned lands around Loch Awe which was populated in close proximity with MacGregors, Campbells and Stewarts.

Similarly, on the north-west side an unclassified single-track road runs the full length from the A85 in Taynuilt to Ford.

A steamer service used to operate on the loch from the pier just below the hotel, stopping at Portsonachan, Taycreggan, Eredine and Ford.

The author Mary Stewart resided in her Lochard home, House of Letterawe, during the last several decades of her long life.