UK Energy Costs

[willendure]

Use oil here and twice as expensive as last year. Moved from an old farmhouse to a recently renovated house, so fingers crossed it doesn't cost so much to heat.

I do have a fairly fast-flowing burn running down the hill through the property. I’m still tempted to look into hydro power, but that’s probably another project for another day!

You might be surprised how much you can get out of a burn. Friend of mine has a property with a small brun through it, built a dam to channel water down a pipe that descends maybe 20 metres down the hill to his hydro station. When it rains its generating up to 60KW, sells to the grid and he is making a something like £40K a year on it, although that money gets split between him and a few others that set up the scheme.

[WooHooNomad]

You might be surprised how much you can get out of a burn. Friend of mine has a property with a small brun through it, built a dam to channel water down a pipe that descends maybe 20 metres down the hill to his hydro station. When it rains its generating up to 60KW, sells to the grid and he is making a something like £40K a year on it, although that money gets split between him and a few others that set up the scheme.

Ok, now i have to start looking into this

Any more details about his hydro station?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Interesting: apparently it requires about 360L/s with a 20m head to generate 60kW.

That's a lot of water and a lot of power generated.

Who'd have thunk?

Gosh. 40cm pipe diameter too.