Amazing, I know. I didn’t believe it at first either. How could wind power cost less than $150 per turbine? That just wasn’t possible. Well, it is, and you don’t even need any special skills or knowledge to do it!
Click here if you want to skip the story and see the official website for the wind turbine plans, but I recommend finishing the story!
But that’s getting ahead of myself. My friend Jim at the green energy company had invited me over to see his new wind turbines. He had found some plans and built them himself. When I got there, we went out to see the test installation he has. Here’s a picture of it!
I have to say, it looked sorta flimsy. But when he told me that it was only used to test the turbines he builds to measure how much power they were able to generate everything was pretty clear. It was intended to be easy to take down!
We talked a bit about the building process and he told me that most of the materials he needed for his first diy wind turbine were lying around in his garage, though a few things he had to run to the hardware store to pick up.
Now you’re not going to power your whole home off of a single turbine, DIY or commercial, but they’re not designed to do that. They’re designed to be installed like solar panels and be connected to storage batteries.
This is no different from other green power methods. The wind isn’t constant so you can’t just plug into the generator and get endless power.
Jim had built several residential wind turbines at this point, and his entire wind power cost was less than $500. He was supplying almost all of his residential power needs via wind energy. Works for me, I thought! Great power sources at a fraction of commercially manufactured wind turbine prices.
I was inspired, to say the least. I decided to build some too! I went home and bought the plans online. They weren’t all that expensive and came with detailed step by step directions, instructional videos, and great pictures.
There were a number of free bonuses that came with the plans including instructions on building DIY solar panels. I definitely had to try those out too!
Click here to see the official website for the wind turbine plans I used.
Well, this looked pretty darn easy. I gathered up everything I needed to create my very own wind turbine. Within a few days I had my new residential wind generator ready to go. I tested it out and determined that I was getting 250W of power, or about twice what you would get from an off the shelf solar panel.
Long story short, I’ve made a couple more and am very happy with the combined power output of our green energy plant. I even used the solar panel plans that were included as a bonus and they worked great! Here’s a great picture of our country farm home with amazingly low wind power cost.
Click here to go to the official website for the DIY wind turbine plans I used to build my own wind turbines for less than $150 each!
Hey, it’s Jason again. I tell you, as someone who works in the construction industry, this should really be easier. But unlike commercial installations and even solar panels, nobody has really made wind power cost effective for residential wind generators yet. I talked to all of my commercial contacts and tried to find the real solution, but didn’t really get anywhere.
I tried pulling some strings with the guys that did an alternative power project for one of the commercial buildings I built but the price tag was just way too high. The wind power installation costs were through the roof. No pun intended. I began to doubt the cost efficiency of wind power.
The advantages of wind power were clear. Clean energy, minimal environmental impact, minimal cost once the system is up and running. Clearly it’s one of the best alternative power sources. The technology behind it isn’t all that complicated so why on earth was wind power for homes so expensive?
Well, I got lucky! My friend at the green power company I talked about earlier gave me a call and told me about a company he had just found out about. They provided a great solution for residential renewable energy and I couldn’t wait to check it out. He had ordered a package from them and I made an appointment to come see what he found!
Click here to see the package of DIY plans my friend found … I used them to make my own wind turbines for less than $15 each!
So I have to say, my quest to reduce my wind power cost was a success. I moved into a new place … new to me at least, and wanted to use alternate energy solutions. A mix of solar and wind was a definite possibility.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. My name is Jason, and my wife and I found a nice place in the country to move to. An old fashioned farm home that looks a bit rustic was just perfect for us. This place was close to the woods but not in them so we got to enjoy abundant wildlife and what turned into an easy wind power installation. I was expecting the real cost of wind power to be pretty high, but when I figured out the wind power cost per kilowatt hour I ended up with a great number. But there I go again, getting ahead of myself!
When I started off I wasn’t sure what to do, or where to begin. I did plenty of research but everything looked so expensive. I wasn’t sure how I’d pull it off. I really didn’t think that wind power for homes was so expensive, especially when you combine solar and wind power together to optimize your power generation.
Boy was I wrong. This stuff was EXPENSIVE. I spent hours poring over brochures from wind power company after company, and just didn’t find what I wanted. I looked at used wind turbines and just didn’t find anything right. Until fate stepped in!
Click here to see the DIY wind turbine plans I bought that let me build wind turbines for less than $150 each!
