{"id":15068,"date":"2015-10-21T23:29:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15068"},"modified":"2015-10-21T23:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T22:29:32","slug":"revised-abingdon-hydro-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15068","title":{"rendered":"Revised Abingdon Hydro Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15102101.jpg\" alt=\"Revised Abingdon Hydro Plans\" \/><br \/>\nRevised plans have been submitted to the Vale of White Horse for the Abingdon Hydro, the community funded project to generate electricity from the River Thames in Abingdon. <\/p>\n<p>Revised plans have been resubmitted because, after the detailed design, the generator house will need to be larger than the original design. <\/p>\n<p>Potential contractors will also need easy access to the site, and so a temporary road from Audlett Drive, and a temporary bridge, (alongside the current footbridge), have been sketched in as part of the plans.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the plans at at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/java\/support\/Main.jsp?MODULE=ApplicationDetails&#038;REF=P15\/V2335\/FUL\">P15\/V2335\/FUL<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The government have given until September 2016, for projects with a long lead time like this one, to be generating electricity to get the enhanced &#8216;feed in tariff&#8217; for generating electricity. Any later and the project&#8217;s financial viability would be in question.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is expected to take 6-8 months. Time is now of the essence for these revised plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revised plans have been submitted to the Vale of White Horse for the Abingdon Hydro, the community funded project to generate electricity from the River Thames in Abingdon. Revised plans have been resubmitted because, after the detailed design, the generator house will need to be larger than the original design. Potential contractors will also need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}