{"id":15151,"date":"2015-11-04T22:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15151"},"modified":"2015-11-04T22:33:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:33:30","slug":"abingdon-hydro-project-will-not-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15151","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Hydro Project will not go ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15110401.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Hydro\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Hydro project was launched in 2010, with the aim of harnessing the power of the Thames at Abingdon Weir to make enough electricity for at least 200 homes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15110402.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Hydro\" \/><br \/>\nThe project&#8217;s model Archimedes Screw became a feature at many events promoting the project.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15110403.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Hydro\" \/><br \/>\nThe project plans were first approved by the environment agency and district council in 2012. The share launch was at the end of 2014, and gained 420 community members who invested over \u00a3800K. Enthusiatic volunteers started clearing the land in February this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15110404.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Hydro\" \/><br \/>\nBut finances and the clock have been against the project, and directors have decided not to go ahead. <\/p>\n<p>Time was running out if the project was to be financially viable as it depended on getting the enhanced electricity tariff. The complexity of regulations slowed progress. Recent tax changes made it less attractive for additional investors to buy shares. And finally, the build price was higher than anticipated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Hydro project was launched in 2010, with the aim of harnessing the power of the Thames at Abingdon Weir to make enough electricity for at least 200 homes. The project&#8217;s model Archimedes Screw became a feature at many events promoting the project. The project plans were first approved by the environment agency and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151","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=15151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}