Longbridge Weir Hydro

52°55′22″N 1°28′15″W / 52.92278°N 1.47083°W / 52.92278; -1.47083Commission date2012Owner(s)Derby City CouncilThermal power station Turbine technologyHydroelectricPower generation Units operational230kw/h

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Longbridge Weir Hydro Power House is the name given to a hydro-electric dam built on the River Derwent in the City of Derby.

The project was completed by Derwent Hydro^[1] in 2013 at a cost of £1.7 million. The station primarily exists to power the city councils offices, however, surplus energy is sold back to the National Grid.^[2]

References

^ "Consultancy and Design". Derwent Hydro. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
^ "Derby's Derwent hydroelectric power plant opens". BBC News. 19 May 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2013.

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Electricity generation in the East Midlands

Power stations

Biomass

Closed	Cottam

Coal

Active	Ratcliffe-on-Soar
Closed	Castle Donnington Cottam Drakelow High Marnham Northampton Spondon Staythorpe West Burton Wilford Willington

Active	Corby Cottam Derwent Spalding Staythorpe Sutton Bridge West Burton
Proposed/future	Drakelow

Active	Beeston Belper North Mill Borrowash Hydro Burton upon Trent Flour Mills Cuckney School Longbridge Weir Masson Mill Milford Hydro Torrs

Incinerators/waste

Active	Burton Wold Conisholme Deeping St Nicholas Lincs Lindhurst Lynn and Inner Dowsing
Proposed/future	Race Bank Triton Knoll

Organisations

East Midlands Electricity
Opus Energy
Pre-nationalisation electric power companies

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