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Roger Brown
With residential wind systems you can pay anywhere from under $1,000 all the way up to $40,000 and have a device that produces electricity for your house. There is no way to say exactly how much you pay for the device will have a direct correlation with the energy output you receive. You have to make a little bit of effort and size up what the options are on your property and figure out how you are going to employ the concept of residential wind there. On the lower end of the spectrum you can expect to pay in the $5000-$6000 range for a starter wind turbine that will produce enough energy for a small pump or maybe even allow you to back up the refrigerator or freezer. At the higher end of the spectrum expect to pay $40,000 or more the more expensive devices where you will get equipment that produces a lot more energy but it comes at the cost of having to install it high above the trees and other obstacles in order to take advantage of that wind flow. It is most important to match up the job with the wind turbine. Residential wind is completely sufficient to produce energy for your house. But, you have to do your homework upfront and make sure that you are matching the type of device to the job you have it intended for. The more expensive the device, typically, the more energy will produce. The ones at the lower end of the continuum are typically horizontal devices and will only make a portion of your power load requirements. They are generally not located on a tower either for that price. When you put a wind turbine on top of a tower to take advantage of the strongest winds above the trees, then you are talking about a lot more money… as a matter of fact you could pay as much for the tower as you would for the wind device itself. You have to be careful not to over-buy in this process as well. It is very easy to purchase a top-of-the-line wind turbine and not realize it when you only need something a lot less expensive. The difficulty is the materials are different and they are hard to differentiate unless you've been in the market for wind turbines for quite some time. In summary, there is no one price for residential wind projects. There is a lot of difference and those differences are not so clear as night and day. The best way to sort it all out though is to spend a little time and sift thru what you could possibly use and where you can locate a wind turbine to take advantage of the residential wind on your property.
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