Profits made by selling bulk electricity to the Scottish lowlands would be used to fund "the economic development and social improvement of the North of Scotland."

The deputy chairman and chief executive was Edward MacColl, an engineer with wide experience of hydro-electric projects and electrical distribution networks.

The channel under the bridge proved to be too small, and the level of the loch continued to rise, so the cut had to be made wider and deeper to overcome this.

[10] The station is on the left bank of the Mucomir Cut, and by late 1955, it had been sanctioned by Parliament, but no work had begun.

A tailrace from the power station building carries the water to be discharged back into the river below Mucomir Bridge.

[13] This arrangement provides a head of 23 feet (7.0 m) for the turbine, which can produce 1.95 MW, and the station, which was commissioned in 1962, generates around 9,000 MWh per year.

Additionally, the Mucomir Cut was dredged to return it to the size it was in 1843, and to mitigate the possibility of one of the power station's three 90-foot (27 m) automated sluice gates from becoming blocked, felled a large number of trees, to prevent them falling into the water in flood conditions.

The fish lift takes around an hour to fill, and is operated at least four times a day from April to November, including once during the night.

The new machine includes a revised profile for the turbine blades, making it easier for fish to swim through without being harmed.