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Tag Archives: Anafon; Abergwyngregyn
How much is a community hydro – the risky bit
We are now 20 months into the development phase of the 500kw Anafon Community hydro. As ever hydros involve quite a bit of “fleet-of-foot” thinking as we find out more and more through the surveys. One issue which has come … Continue reading
What is the social value of a hydro?
Have just spent a couple of days with Mark who is a Clore Leadership Programme and has started the ‘shared assets‘ company. Mark will be spending the next 9 weeks with us looking at a specific area namely to understand the … Continue reading
Community hydro progress.
Those of you following the blog will know of the joint venture with the village of Abergwyngregyn and looking at a possible 500kw hydro on the Anafon river. The Magic mushroom issue (rare form of the fungus) which was found has … Continue reading
How big is the community hydro? Lets see what the magic mushrooms say?
Update on the Anafon community hydro. We have had to accelerate some of the surveys because of seasonality aspects. No use surveying for grass land fungi in winter and spring because you wont see any. Bryophyte is also better in … Continue reading
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Community hydro – lets see whats out there. Oh and global mention of our work
We are moving into the next phase of the Anafon community hydro. Getting under the skin of the habitat. Lets see if the development is possible, benign and works with its location. We are looking at the ecological, archaeological features of … Continue reading
Community energy seems to be taking over…good!
The next few weeks seems to be dominated with community energy projects. To be honest i also find them to be the most satisfying aspect of our work. Next week its Centre for Sustainable Energy presentation on why land owners … Continue reading
Community Hydro – Anafon from a different perspective
The perspective being one from above. Our flying archaeologist Kathy also took these images of the Anafon valley. The project is moving forward and we (the project team) are getting ready for our first major piece of survey work. That … Continue reading
