£5.3m hrydo scheme is running
Yorkshire's largest-ever low head river hydropower project - and the largest water project of its kind to be built in England this century - has officially opened.
The Kirkthorpe Hydropower project on the River Calder, has cost £5.3m.
Kirkthorpe started generating electricity a few weeks ago after a 15 month construction period. It will generate clean, renewable energy 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for 10 to 11 months a year.
Fish and eel passages have also been built enable them to pass the hydro scheme’s weir safely.