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Congleton Hydro Newsletter – February 2022
Mid-Winter, maybe cold, miserable but not wet! Who has stolen all our rain?? According to the Met Office, this January has been one of the driest on record. However, as we are blessed with having a Variable Speed Drive at the heart of our installation, we continue to...
Congleton Hydro Newsletter January 2022
Happy New Year Or ‘cos I’m a proud Welshman Blwyddyn Newydd Dda In sympathy with December being the month with the fewest number of daylight hours, this newsletter is also one of the shortest and gives my poor old fingers a much-needed rest from all the typing!...
Congleton Hydro Newsletter December
With apologies to The Dave Clark Five!! We are Clad all Over.With further apologies to the Dave Clark Five, we hope our workmanship has produced a strong and secure cladding and that it does not all end up in: Bits and Pieces For those of you too young to have...
Congleton Hydro Newsletter November
A Major Milestone The Volts and Amps are Flowing! Since the last newsletter, Congleton Hydro has been in continuous generation (apart from a few short shutdowns to facilitate safe working on cladding etc). From about mid-September we have now exported 30MWhrs...
Congleton Hydro October Newsletter
Full Power - Fully Operational - Unattended OperationAfter almost six years since the first meeting over a few pints to discuss the concept of a Community Hydro using the power generated by Havannah Weir, Congleton Hydro has been operational for the last two weeks....
Congleton Hydro Newsletter September
The Holy Trinity Archie, you know all about, he even has his own world-wide fan club!!, The G99 Protection Relay was the focus of the August Newsletter—crucially important to allow us to connect to the external world i.e. The Grid! All good stuff but we need the...
Congleton Hydro Newsletter August
We have G99 Lift Off!!!! So what? we hear you say, big deal—what has a soft ice cream with a flake, or a multi-nation economic jamboree got to do with our Hydro? Well, it is one of the most important of the approvals we need to obtain, (seems our whole lives have been...
Congleton Hydro Newsletter July 2021
Archie Goes Electric. Finally, Archie briefly wakes up and helps demonstrate that power can be generated from Congleton Hydro. After rucks of testing, sensor calibrating, parameter tweaking and more testing, it was time to feed his insatiable appetite and give him a...
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Congleton HydroVolunteer role descriptionRole title Documentation ControllerPurpose of the role - Devise and introduce a structured system that will enable the collation, production and maintenance of the historical design and operating documentation for...
Flash Update – Archie Awakes! Congleton Hydro
After some heart-stopping moments (well quite a few actually) we managed to open the inlet channel sluice gate and give Archie some life-giving Vaccination—water from the River Dane! As you can see from the short video clip, Archie quickly responded to his Jab!! and...
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