Would you buy a package deal to wind power your home ?
Saturday, August 8th, 2009 at
4:41 am
I mean,one price and includes instalation of ALL compoents, wireing to code, trenching, location, and erecting the wind mill it self.
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I’ve been doing a lot of research about residential wind power and I’m not sure what I’d do if I was in the right situation to invest in wind power. The approach you’re asking about is the way I would usually do things, but the costs are so high.
From what I’ve read, the Skystream 3.7 Residential Wind Turbine will cost approximately $5,500.00 USD, but when installation costs are factored in, the initial investment will typically be in the range of $12,000 USD to $15,000 USD. Rebates and incentives will reduce the purchase price in some areas, but that’s a lot of money.
The other option is to build your own turbine to wind power your home. I am not much of a do-it-yourselfer, but the cost savings are just too large to ignore. You can purchase instructions for taking on this type of a project from various sources. The instructions seem to range in price from $10-$50 and they promise the materials will cost less than $200. Even if it takes you a couple of weekends to complete the project and it ends up costing twice as much to build the product, that’s quite a difference in costs!
I don’t know if this has been helpful or not, but I’ll include a link to my Residential Wind Turbine Blog where I’ve been trying to collect data about the various options available.
I’m sure you’ll make the right decision on which way you should go.
I’m all about trying to find different ways to save energy in my house. I brought up solar panels with my dad (we live in South Florida) but he thought it was useless. A windmill would be freakin awesome to have. If it were hurricane proof 100% that’d be even better! I wish it were that easy though.
Yes.
Although, to save on capital, I assume a neighborhood sharing energy from a mill would be best (until costs come down on setting them up)
I’d love to add wind at my house, but I don’t get enough to make the investment worth it. I’ve looked at the wind map.
No. I live in an area where there isn’t a good source of constant wind at the required speed. People who put windmills up in those areas are setting themselves up for failure. If I lived in say, Bremerhaven, Germany where it never stops blowing then sure, I’d do it if it was a reputable company.