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Wind Power For Homeowners

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Wind Power

Wind Power

Timothy Thiele

There's a big, free power source up in the sky just waiting to be tapped by you. It's free and it can produce electricity for you by installing a wind generator. Big business is doing it across the nation and now, so can you.

Skystream 3.7® is a new generation residential and small business wind generator that can supply some, if not all of your electrical demand needs. This way, you can reduce or eliminate your monthly electricity costs.

With a rated capacity of 2.4 KW of power, this unit can produce as much as 40%-90% of a household's total energy needs. The best part of owning one of these units is the potential, when the wind is blowing hard, to have excess electricity ptroduced that makes the electric meter spin backwrads. This in turn means that you are actually selling power to the utility company, instead of buying it from them.

It is possible to actually pay for this unit in as little as five years, depending on the initial cost, the cost of electricity, and the average wind speed.

So will this system work for you? You need an average wind speed of 10 mph or greater and at least 0.5 acre of land to place it on. You need a utitlty interconnection agreement with the utility company and comply with the local zoning laws for height of the unit.

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