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Water supplies Green EnergySouth West Water's new hydro turbine has been successfully commissioned at Littlehempston water treatment works to generate enormous amounts of environmentally friendly energy.
 Water supplies Green Energy Water from the 17km Devon spine main will be used to power a turbine generating up to 560KW of green energy in any 24 hour period. That's enough electricity to supply the needs of about 560 homes for a day. The raw water arrives at the works for treatment from a height of 160 meters and this huge pressure is ideal to operate a hydro turbine which rotates 1500 times a minute to generate electricity. Most of this green energy will be used to treat raw water and provide drinking water supplies for residents in Torbay, Newton Abbot and parts of the South Hams. The Littlehempston project started in the summer and has involved erecting a building to house the new turbine, intercepting flows from the spine main and designing and installing a specialist hydraulic control system. A landscaped earth bank surrounds the new turbine to ensure the building blends into the surrounding countryside and provides an area for local wildlife to develop. South West Water owns and operates seven hydro power plants around the region which use water to generate green electricity and studies are currently underway to see if this valuable resource can be used to benefit other locations. This method of energy generation is hugely beneficial for the environment the water energy is completely clean and renewable and the process releases no damaging fossil fuel emissions into the atmosphere. If this quantity of energy was generated using traditional methods two thousand tons of carbon dioxide along with two hundred tons of sulphur dioxide and 65 tons of nitrogen oxide would be produced. Hydro power ensures the environment is protected. "Littlehempston water quite literally generates the electricity required to treat it while protecting the environment and this also greatly reduces operating costs." said Paul Mitchell, South West Water's Senior Project Leader. "It is important for large electricity users to switch to environmentally friendly energy generation methods wherever possible to benefit the environment". -ENDS- For further information please contact Dina Chandler, Communications Officer on 01392 443021.
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