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Sorry everybody after posting the mail I have just found a discussion on this subject, and I think it has all been covered, unless anyone has any further developments to offer.
I had a half hearted look at a domestic Wind Turbine and came to the conclusion it was not viable as I considered the payback period to be in excess of 25 years and this is ignoring maintenance costs.
The problem I found with these devices was that their use is limited to a fairly small wind speed window but the greatest downside was that when the thing is generating, you have to use the power as it is generated and at times when you are not using the power, say during the night, the power generated is not returned to the grid. As such this would effectively drive the electricity meter backwards so in effect this would give a payback when you are not using the power being generated. If the damn things did return power to the grid then the payback time would be probably a couple of years and therefore viable.
Has anyone looked into this and have I got the ideas correct.
Or has anyone worked out a way of recovering the excess power generated by a domestic wind turbine -
Come On Joe-90, you know everything, you must have the answer.
I had a half hearted look at a domestic Wind Turbine and came to the conclusion it was not viable as I considered the payback period to be in excess of 25 years and this is ignoring maintenance costs.
The problem I found with these devices was that their use is limited to a fairly small wind speed window but the greatest downside was that when the thing is generating, you have to use the power as it is generated and at times when you are not using the power, say during the night, the power generated is not returned to the grid. As such this would effectively drive the electricity meter backwards so in effect this would give a payback when you are not using the power being generated. If the damn things did return power to the grid then the payback time would be probably a couple of years and therefore viable.
Has anyone looked into this and have I got the ideas correct.
Or has anyone worked out a way of recovering the excess power generated by a domestic wind turbine -
Come On Joe-90, you know everything, you must have the answer.