Author name: Anne_Wheldon

Starting this weekend, two weeks of free events to inspire, entertain and be part of Reading’s journey to net zero […]

You may have noticed that our data pages were blank for most of last week. This was because we shut

The Reading Hydro murals recently featured in this scholarly article about Commando Jugenstil, the collective who created them. The murals

Reading Hydro welcomed our oldest visitor to date last week!  Joe, aged 99, a retired civil engineer, braved the rain

The River Thames was still thundering over Caversham weir on Friday. All this water has to go somewhere and the

Reading Hydro was set up to provide local renewable energy, because this cuts climate heating, cuts air pollution, and cuts

At 8:01 this morning, Reading Hydro had generated 500 megawatt hours (MWh) of hydro electricity! That’s enough to: This renewable

The sluice gate problem was sorted on August 8th. Our O&M team tracked it down to a tiny check-valve that

You may have noticed that turbine 1 (Tony) has generated only very briefly over the past two weeks. A contractor

Take a walking tour of the Reading Hydro site, using the map below and our new information boards! Board 1