Comments on: Small Wind Turbine Market Sees Strong Growth (2010 Market Growth Report)

By: vasant kale narahar

vasant kale narahar — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:23:00 +0000

what is minimum wind speed required , so the wind power become financially affordable

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:56:00 +0000

I think the reason units are down and kilowatts are up in charts is the cost of small wind compared to solar.

Solar PV has decreased the cost per watt during the years shown in the charts; however, the cost of small wind (sadly) has increased per watt over the same period of time :-(.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:02:00 +0000

I just don’t see home owner wind turbines being a good expenditure of money. The good, clean wind is up high and when it comes to turbines it’s almost always the case that bigger is better.

Distributed (rooftop) solar makes a lot of sense to me. Small turbine distributed wind doesn’t.

What I’d like to see is a wind farm where individuals could own a piece. Someone living in an apartment who would like to purchase their EV power for the next few decades could buy shares in a wind farm just like people can buy into a community solar farm. Put your money where the wind blows hard and generate a lot more power per dollar.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:17:00 +0000

Zach:
If the numbers you quote are accurate they put the average cost/per @ around 17,000+ and the rebates bring that down to around 13,600. The “payback time” would be ‘daunting’ to say the least. Hopefully, those costs will come down so that the average home owner would find the option more attractive.
Ed

By: Mb-bigb

Mb-bigb — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:12:00 +0000

while kw and sales revenue showed healthy increases, the number of units sold has actually decreased for 2 years running – from over 10,300 in 2008, to 9800 in 2009, to 7800 in 2010. I guess the turbines being sold are more powerful on average (and probably cost more too), but it would be nice to see the number of turbines being sold increasing on a year by year basis. Or maybe I’m misinterpreting the graph?