It generates 50 kW of electricity using a screw turbine in part of the former mill race.

[2] Later the mill became a woodworking shop turning imported cedar into furniture for local chapels.

[3] Planning permission and the Abstraction Licence were granted in February 2009 and the share issue started in September 2008[4] raised the necessary capital of £410,000.

[5] Lakeland Marine Construction began work in June 2009 and completed it in October with Settle Hydro Ltd generating electricity by November of the same year.

Over the forty-year lifetime of the scheme that generates 165,000 kWh per annum, it is envisaged that 3,200 tonnes of carbon will be saved.