How Can WRE Ltd Help You?
Western Renewable Energy offers a range of different services to support potential developers and hydro owners alike.
We carry out consultancy, project design and installation:
- Initial pre-feasibility and full feasibility studies
- Hydrological modelling, surveys, flood risk assessments, data logging
- Pre-abstraction Licence and formal Abstraction licence applications and advice
- Planning permissions
- Professional services – design reviews, tender development, site supervision
- Hydro system design, including detailed civil design, M & E system design
- Screw turbine system design
- Project installation and management
- Equipment manufacture from sluices to screeners and flow measurement devices
We also provide operation and maintenance services:
- Day-to-day maintenance
- Plant upgrades
- Breakdown maintenance
Equipment Manufacture
WRE Ltd manufacture standard ‘zero head loss’ economical automatic screens for flows up to 500 l/s, as well as coanda type screens for abstractions up to 100 l/s. All products are to the highest quality, UK manufactured by us, and from laser cut stainless steel construction.

WRE Ltd regularly manufactures and supplies a range of designs of sluice, from small manual Dartmoor Oak sluices, to larger hydraulically driven steel gates up to 2 cumec capacity and more.
WRE Ltd manufactures a novel low cost automated screener, which cleans itself when required, and is robust toward debris. We also manufacture fixed screens to relevant EA specifications.
WRE Ltd manufactures and installs temporary and permanent flow measurement weirs for abstraction and general flow monitoring.