Our new hydoelectric turbine arrived today

[frenchriverland]

Hello Guys:

Our new Kiser hydro turbine arrived yesterday. We off loaded it from the truck. The contractor just inserted the last 40 foot long by 12 foot diameter piece of penstock. We are getting ready to rewater the hydro station. Please see:

www.frenchriverland.com

 

[OldandWorn]

Amazing work!! I need to check out your sidebars.

As a general rule, do the power companies welcome the extra power or see you as competitors?

 

[fast_st]

Very nice, was looking at the pictures before I realized it was the old JR mill site, that's awesome, local redevelopment and getting that power station back in operation. I'd love to see it in operation have driven by it thousands of times, glad it survived the 87 floods where the whole dam was threatened.

 

[frenchriverland]

Kiser Turbine at Pepperell Paper

Thank you for your kind comments. Yes the plant we are restoring is the former power plant of Pepperell Paper Company. The paper plant is long gone with all the buildings torn down. We have rebuilt all three turbines and generators. We replaced the old slate gear with new gear. Our last big project is to replace the failing wooden penstock with a new steel penstock. We are also getting a federal license for the project.

Sincerely,

Bill Fay

 

[RocksnRoses]

Bill, I am always in awe of the work you people do and it's not like that it is out in the open, often it is in some deep, pokey, damp hole with hardly any room to move. I wish we had running water here, we could get you to put a water turbine in. Instead we are about to have a 199 turbine wind farm forced upon us, that nobody wants, except 36 host farmers.

RnR.

 

[fast_st]

I remember driving by JR to see that they had an excavator rodeo going, pretty much in a day or two there was only a slab left. You could almost sell scraps of the old penstock for souvineers from a nonfunctional standpoint it was pretty in the winter as the spraying water would make interesting frost patterns. Can you say what the total MW output would be? I know at low water times, when they lowered the dam to do some repairs a couple decades ago, the actual water flow was 2 feet wide and it exposed a lot of underwater features.

 

[OldandWorn]

What a learning experience this has been. I never knew small plants like this even existed. I have read every caption on your 4 picture pages and still making my way down the sidebar. While I was on Google trying to figure out how these plants are built and learning about the different types of turbines I happened across 4 videos of the Appleton restore. Later, I found mention about this plant on your side links. Did the city end up destroying it? That would be a shame with all of the work he put into that plant.

What did you end up doing with the worn circular bearing surface in the casting under the table of the Niles boring mill? I saw the pics of the restore but maybe missed that part.

 

[robin yates uk]

engineering works like these are an absolute greenlight for any young person looking for something different but worthwhile for a future career.A big ten out of ten for all your works, pictures and website.Thank you