Author name: Stuart_Ward

Seasoned weather watchers cannot have failed to notice the recent heavy rain over the last few weeks.  River watchers will […]

As part of efforts to raise climate change awareness as the intergovernmental COP27 meeting starts in Egypt this week, a

Great news – today (23rd October) the Environment Agency gave us permission to generate again, and both turbines were re-started

You will have noticed if you regularly walk past our turbines that they haven’t been turning for quite some time

You may have noticed if you have walked past our turbines or looked at the live data feed on our

This aerial photo was taken in August 1928 and shows Caversham Weir and View Island towards the bottom of the

Great news! Reading Hydro’s turbines have both been running full-time since 22nd November (apart from short periods of scheduled maintenance

Why do we need an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) in the turbine house? Don’t we have enough electricity there? The

We finally had all permissions and procedures in place to start generating on September 1st. But once again the weather was

The Archimedes screw turbines are relatively simple and don’t need much maintenance. However, we will appoint contractors to keep the