Say No To River Hydro

The UK's Environment Agency has basically given free rein to developers to cash in on government subsidies by installing archimedes hydro generators on Britains inland river systems.

On average these installations cost over 700k each to install and all for the sake to power a few houses when the hydro is in operation.

To clarify, if the scheme claims it can power 24 houses, then it could boil just one kettle non stop, all day. That is a lot of hardware, and environmental impact, for one kettle's worth of electricity.

Note that the figure of 3KWh per house per day is near the low end of UK electricity consumption.

The average house, according to official statistics, uses 4709 KWh per day, thereby reducing the real number of houses that can be powered by the installation by some 37% over quoted figures.

Annual estimated electrical output figures are always over exaggerated as the units can not run in very low or high river flows.

There's proof that these archimedean hydro generators effect the ecology of the surrounding area they also can harm, kill fish and eels, inhibit and effect the free movement of migratory fish like salmon and sea trout.

Please read article on the Angling Trust website.
http://www.anglingtrust.net/news.asp?section=29&itemid=1012

The Angling Trust has learned that the Environment Agency has granted licences to a Hydro Company, for two hydropower plants on the river Trent which allow up to 100 fish – including eels – to be killed at each of two plants in any 24 hour period.
http://www.anglingtrust.net/news.asp?section=29&itemid=660

Hydro effecting fish movement.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/country-view/environment/top-hydro-plant-may-face-curbs-over-fears-for-salmon-1-4408657

More good reading

http://www.powerengineeringint.com/news/2012/08/29/something-s-fishy.html