A short video of the Knottingley Hydropower Station Opening Day on 3rd November 2017, when Geoffrey Boycott OBE came to open the largest hydropower station in Yorkshire
The government must introduce an incentive structure for hydropower and give it access to public funds, to encourage more projects to be built, developer Barn Energy has insisted.
The firm, currently developing a hydropower scheme in Kirkthorpe on t...
Located at Thrybergh Weir on the River Don, near the village of Kilnhurst and five miles north-east of Rotherham, the hydropower scheme uses the flow of the River Don to power two large turbines to generate renewable electricity, enough to supply 300 homes in perpetuity.
The £2.1m plant, developed by Barn Energy and Yorkshire Hydropower, will generate electricity 24/7, 10-11 months of the year, for the next 100 years. It has been...
