Development

We build and operate our own schemes

Ellergreen Hydro has learnt its trade by developing its own schemes. Since our foundation in 2008, we’ve been busy leading a renaissance in hydro in the English Lake District and surrounding regions, and have a growing portfolio of sites including the following:

Name	KW – Project description	Status	Comment
Logan Gill	450kW – high head	Operational	Largest scheme built in Lake District on virgin ground for over a century.
Docker Nook Farm	15kW – medium head	Operational	our first scheme and our “laboratory”
Kilnstones	30kW – high head	Operational	hill farm scheme trialling effectiveness of high head schemes on very small catchments
Burneside	100kW – low head	Consented	Archimedean Screw scheme on SSSI/SAC river, to be built 2012.
Scandale Beck	900kW – high head	Design phase	applications filed, 200m head in heart of Lake District
Millthrop	50kW – low head	Design phase	Old mill site in Yorkshire Dales National Park, being designed to minimise fisheries impact

For more details see our Case Studies page

Development involves leasing appropriate sites, then arranging and financing every stage of development ourselves. It offers farmers and landowners a means to realise a return on a potential asset with no risk or outlay. Our terms are flexible and we also develop and invest in partnership with others in some cases. Please Contact us to find out more.