Archive | May, 2016

North York Moors National Park Community Grant

We pay interest and have made several capital payments on our loan from the North York Moors National Park Sustainable Development. This money is then used to help fund community projects in the National Park. Their community grant fund 2016 is open for applications until the 30th June 2016.

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Inspiring future engineers

Last November, we gave a talk entitled ‘Calling All Engineers (and Aspiring Engineers)’ for those interested in hearing about the history of the Esk Energy community turbine from an engineering point of view. We are now looking forward to welcoming participants of Whitby Rotary club’s Senior Engineering competition, including the winners, to site for a […]

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Payback of carbon within 3 years

The winter rain has meant that even though last summer was very dry, we have exported more than our annual target of 117,600 kWh in the year April 2015 – March 2016. We estimated the carbon footprint of the installation to be 150 tonnes (Te) of carbon to cover the CO2 used for things such […]

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Wild daffodils

Spring on site

Spring arrived on site with the wild daffodils planted by children from Ruswarp Primary in bloom, flowers on the willow our volunteers planted and coltsfoot appearing by themselves.

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