Finding ways to reduce the carbon footprint of the Estate and work with Nature as much as possible to provide renewable power is a fundamentally important strategy for us. We have much to do but have started by installing a wood boiler at Haddon Hall and are building a micro hydro electric plant at Alport Mill which will power up to 35 houses.
The main coke fired boiler at Haddon was replaced last year with a Windhager log fired system. This Austrian system supplies all hot water for the Hall (there is no central heating).
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Beginning this winter and to be completed by June 2009, the Estate is building a c.35KW hydro electric plant in the village of Alport. The entire plant will be buried underground beside an old mill, and will borrow water in a controlled way from the River Lathkill.
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