It was our pleasure to welcome South Ayrshire's Community Planning Partnership Board to our Nethermills Hydro Scheme last week. And on such a beautiful spring morning Ayrshire really is a fantastic place to be.
Having been operational for a full year now, it was great to have the opportunity to share some of the lessons learned and data gathered during what has been an unusually dry year. Despite this, our first feasability and hydrological surveys predicted the site could generate 320MWh of electicty and this was fully realised with 321MWh of electricity produced over those first 12 months. 79% of this energy was used by the nearby Riverside Building at Ayrshire college, the remaing 21% being exported to the grid. Once initial capital costs are repaid, any future surplus funds will be used locally for fuel poverty and green energy projects throughout the south west of Scotland.
