Halton Lune Hydro The biggest community hydro in England

The fish pass was brought back into operation on 23rd January after removing an enormous amount of stone, and we have managed, with welcome assistance from the turbine maker Hydrohrom, to start producing green electricity on Wednesday 4th February, just ...

With thanks to Frances Bowen for recording the video

We’re making good progress on site with flood recovery and we plan to open the footpath via the wooden steps quite soon and restart the turbines during the first week in February. We have had an excavator on site for ...

As some of you will know from personal experience, we have had devastating floods in North Lancashire. On Saturday 5 December the River Lune rose swiftly, and rose and rose. As Saturday turned into Sunday, we were in unchartered territory, the ...

Our first income from the Feed in Tariff (FIT), for the first half of 2015 is finally due to hit our bank account in the next day or so. Payment will normally be every quarter, but it took a few ...

Draining down of the turbine inlet area shows the size of the fish screens – and Brian Jefferson seen here removing small stones from between the bars. The “wiper blades” that pull general debris into a flowing stream (launder channel) ...

We held our first AGM last night at the Halton Centre with 64 members attending and a further 54 sending their apologies, out of a total of 387. John Blowes, our Chairman and Project Manager, gave a very interesting presentation, ...

This photograph shows the high velocity flow of the fish pass entrance, controlled by the associated sluice gate. The white base holds the fish counter resistivity strips and with counting validated by use of cameras in the glass fronted housings ...