South Somerset Hydropower Group
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The South Somerset Hydropower Group (SSHG) is a group of 10 owners of former watermills in the South Somerset area of England who are installing micro-hydro turbines for electricity generation. The Group was founded as a result of an initiative by South Somerset District Council and was the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. The Group won one of the 2005 Ashden Awards and the concept has been adopted by a number of other similar groups.

South Somerset Hydropower Group to the Ashden Awards had been successful. We now had £8,000 to get 7 mills through the process of abstraction licence negotiation with the EA and detailed design.1

The South Somerset Hydropower Group (SSHG) is a group of 10 owners of former watermills in the South Somerset area of England who are installing micro-hydro turbines for electricity generation.2

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