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GSSG is examining the feasibility of installing hydro-electric generation on the weir adjacent to the Goring Lock. This is what it might look like.
The Environment Study was completed in June 2009 and the report is with the Environment Agency (EA). With the EA we have defined the specification for the Flood Risk Assessment and we have received three quotes from specialist consultancies from which one willhas bebeen selected by GSSG.GSSG Weand arethe nowcomputer (Augustmodelling '09)began onin theNovember. vergeWe ofare now contacting design and construction firms to work with to produce design drawings, construction methodology and obtain all permissions from the EA.
We are also looking at all potential funding sources including thea local share issue. Please register your interest in investing on our Registration page.
More about the current status of the project can by following the link. Also read the background story in the Oxford Mail (26 Apr 07), the Reading Evening Post (9 Jan 08), Henley Standard (8 Sep 08) and the Goring Gap News (Sept 08, Oct 08 and Oct 08).Dec09).
The preferred technology is the Archimedes Spiral as they allow fish and eels to pass through without harm, are low maintenance, relatively easy to install, visually entrancing and audibly relaxing. (see thread below). One has been installed on the River Dart, which is the UK's third operational Archimedes Spiral in operation. A picture of the Archimedes SpiralScrew that is used in the River Dart Country Park Hydro-electric Plant is shown below.
The SpiralsScrews on our weir would be less than half this length because the weir head is less, but the diameter of ours will be twice as3.6 muchmetres to generate the power we want. We won't have a housing at the top as we'll use an hydraulic power takeoff linking all three with a generator in a small building near the lock-keeper's house.
Click to see a video of the Spiral in operation
ThreeAt least three more of these turbines will become operational in the UK over the course of this year.2009.
Further technical information about the operation of these type of schemes has been produced by the British Hydropower Association.
The Environment Study was completed in June 2009 and the report is with the Environment Agency (EA). With the EA we have defined the specification for the Flood Risk Assessment and we have received three quotes from specialist consultancies from which one willhas bebeen selected by GSSG.GSSG Weand arethe nowcomputer (Augustmodelling '09)began onin theNovember. vergeWe ofare now contacting design and construction firms to work with to produce design drawings, construction methodology and obtain all permissions from the EA.
We are also looking at all potential funding sources including thea local share issue. Please register your interest in investing on our Registration page.
More about the current status of the project can by following the link. Also read the background story in the Oxford Mail (26 Apr 07), the Reading Evening Post (9 Jan 08), Henley Standard (8 Sep 08) and the Goring Gap News (Sept 08, Oct 08 and Oct 08).Dec09).
The preferred technology is the Archimedes Spiral as they allow fish and eels to pass through without harm, are low maintenance, relatively easy to install, visually entrancing and audibly relaxing. (see thread below). One has been installed on the River Dart, which is the UK's third operational Archimedes Spiral in operation. A picture of the Archimedes SpiralScrew that is used in the River Dart Country Park Hydro-electric Plant is shown below.
The SpiralsScrews on our weir would be less than half this length because the weir head is less, but the diameter of ours will be twice as3.6 muchmetres to generate the power we want. We won't have a housing at the top as we'll use an hydraulic power takeoff linking all three with a generator in a small building near the lock-keeper's house.
Click to see a video of the Spiral in operation
ThreeAt least three more of these turbines will become operational in the UK over the course of this year.2009.
Further technical information about the operation of these type of schemes has been produced by the British Hydropower Association.
