Come along to Reading Hydro’s 2nd AGM, hear updates, get involved, celebrate the progress we have made! We’ll be sharing where we’re up to with the project and reflect what we have done towards our objectives. Then carry on building on this together. If you are not already a member you are more than welcome […]
Hydro news
Hydro Scheme Gets Planning permission
Reading community hydropower project gets go ahead from planning Community group Reading Hydro has received planning permission to install two water turbines at Caversham Weir. We expect to begin construction early next year. The hydro turbines are expected to generate about 380 MWh of electricity each year, enough for 100 average homes. This will prevent […]
EA licences
We are delighted to report that the Environment Agency has just granted the water abstraction and impoundment licences for the hydro.
Some good news
There is some good news, as we had hoped, the pre accreditation of Feed in Tariffs have been reintroduced as a part of the consultation process.
FiTs review December 2015
Centre for Sustainable Energy Newsflash: DECC announce FIT consultation results