Greg Barker at Torrs Hydro


Posted by Greg Barker on 18th April at 2:59am

Greg Barker extols the virtues of community-owned small scale renewables at the Torrs Hydro project.

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Scary Biscuits
So this turbine cost �330k. It produces 63kW peak (if there's no drought). At a wholesale (unsubsidised) price of 5p/kWhr it would only make �26k per year minus operating costs. So, it's more expensive than nuclear and will never pay back.

Greg Barker is barking.
Monday 16th April 2012

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