Dear Cather,
I have created a new form of run of the river hydro you may be
interested in. It is still in the preliminary phases, but it is simple enough
that you may be able to build it. Also on my links page, I have listed all of
the run of the river sites that I know of, big and small.
sincerely,
-Dennis
http://WildWaterPower.com<http://wildwaterpower.com/>
Greetings all.
My name is Cather, and I have recently bought a house in the middle of
nowhere. THe property is on the bank of a river, and I have been
trying to figure out if there is a practical way to get hydro power to
act as either a supplement to grid power or as a replacement. I've
been researching it for a couple of weeks now, but I've discovered
that I don't even know enough to make sense of what I'm reading.
I have seen references to using streams for microhydro, although the
impression I got was that the power generated wasn't in the ballpark
that I'm after. This river (the Willis River, a tributary of the
James River in Virginia, USA) is reasonably larger than a creek-- it's
at least six meters wide. The depth varies with the weather-- I'd say
it's about 1 - 2 meters deep on average, but it will sometimes rise
another 2 meters or higher during flood season. I have no idea what
the flow is in GPM, nor any idea how to find out.
According to my latest power bill (9/16 to 10/16) I used 3290 kWh in a
month. I expect that will be somehwat higher in the summer, although
I should mention that I currently have three teenagers living at home,
and they will more than likely be moved out before I can afford to do
anything with microhydro.
There are a few catches--
1) The house is not on the river bank-- there are about three acres
of woods between the house and the river.
2) The riverbank is a couple of meters above the normal level of the
river.
3) When it rains heavily, the river has been known to rise above the
bank and flood the banks.
4) I don't own both sides of the river-- the other side is a state park.
5) As mentioned, this is a future project-- I don't have the money for
it right now. In fact, I'm pretty much broke right now.
I don't even know what it is that I need to know. I was hoping this
group could point me in the right direction?
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