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Smallholding => Renewables => Topic started by: Luckyand Annie on December 26, 2015, 06:16:27 pm

Title: Hydro power
Post by: Luckyand Annie on December 26, 2015, 06:16:27 pm
We have a stream that runs through our property.  Although the fall is not great the flow is consistent throughout the past 10 years and I would like to investigate the possibility of installing a hydro plant to produce electricity.  I have searched the web and although I have found a firm in Cornwall but would like to find someone in SE Wales (Monmouthshire).  Does anyone have any ideas or contacts?
Title: Re: Hydro power
Post by: mab on December 26, 2015, 09:23:46 pm
TGV hydro do installations in wales; when I enquired they'd do a free feasability estimate based on OS/hydro maps and your info on where you can access the water course, but that was ~ three years ago.


If you're wanting to know how much power your stream can produce there's a calculator on the powerspout website.