Radical Energy Ltd has applied to the Environment Agency for three water abstraction licences for hydropower generation.
The application is for a transfer licence to abstract (take) water from the Dane Brook at Upper Hulme, Leek, Staffordshire at National Grid Reference (NGR) SK 01232 61002 to transfer it to the Dane Brook at NGR SK 01220 60921. Abstraction will take place all year for the purpose of heat and hydro-electric power generation.
Radical Energy Ltd has also applied for an impounding licence to obstruct or impede the flow of the Dane Brook at Upper Hulme at NGR SK 01222 60922. By modifying the existing weir using an adjustable sluice beneath Upper Hulme Mill water will be impounded to facilitate abstraction. The company has also applied for a full licence to abstract water from the Dane Brook immediately upsteam of the existing weir beneath Upper Hulme Mill at NGR SK 01222 60926.
The application is to abstract water at an instantaneous rate not exceeding 200 litres per second as follows:
- 720 cubic metres per hour
- 17,280 cubic metres per day
- 4,131,216 cubic metres per year
Abstraction will take place all year for the purpose of hydro-electric power generation. All water will be returned to the Dane Brook.
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