Wind Power Cost

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Wind Power cost

How much does a Home Wind Power Generator system cost?

There is a person living off grid a few miles from me. When his house was built it would have cost $15000 to get poles installed to connect to the power grid. That became his budget for the solar/Wind Energy system. He installed solar heating panels, solar PV and a 1kW Wind Turbine to charge a battery bank, and even purchased a small portable generator. The system has been operating for several years. Payback on this system was immediate, and he hasn’t had an electric bill since.

I’m putting together a Small Wind system in my back yard. So far I have the concrete foundations installed for a 80 foot guyed tower. Inside, the equipment rack is pretty much complete with the exception of the dump load. Pictures and diagrams are on my web page.
http://members.rennlist.org/warren/wind.html

Payback on the system is somewhere on the order of about 15 years, but I’m not building it to save money. If I were to smoke or go bar hopping regularly an equivalent amount of money would have been spent long ago. This way I have something concrete at the end of the day and it gives me something to experiment with and learn about.