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| 17TH - 23RD NOVEMBER 2017 | UTILITY WEEK
Operations & Assets
High viz
The largest low-head river hydro-
electric power plant ever to be built in
Yorkshire and the largest plant com-
missioned in England since 2000, was
officially opened earlier this month.
Harnessing the flow of the River
Aire, half a mile downriver from the
Ferrybridge coal-fired power station,
the 500kW Knottingley scheme, seven
miles east of Wakefield, will generate
renewable electricity for a local flour
mill and the local electricity grid.
The £7.5 million plant has been
developed by renewable energy pro-
ject developer Barn Energy and will
generate electricity 24/7, 11-12 months
of the year, for the next 100 years. It
was completed in 15 months on time,
Flour power
