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Our flagship project is the very successful Upperlands Community Hydro-Electric scheme which has been producing clean ‘green’ energy since 1999.  This scheme supplies environmentally friendly power to NI Electricity via a 99 kilowatt water turbine.  The turbine gets its ‘driving force’ from huge water reservoirs located in the nearby grounds of the oldest linen manufacturer in NI – William Clark and Sons.  The income from the scheme has allowed us to fund construction of the Linenhall Centre, the business units, a pedestrian footbridge across the river and conversion of a derelict beetling mill into our Visitor Centre and the Flax Coffee Shop.