Micro Wind and Hydro Specialists

Micro Wind

A typical house consumes between 4,000 and 7,000 kWh of electricity per annum and a 2.5kW wind turbine costing around £12,000 to install should supply enough power for this house, saving between £1,400 and £1,700 annually. Wind speed and consistency should be carefully assessed on site prior to installation to establish whether exposure levels are good enough to generate sufficient output. Since your energy demand and the output from the turbine will seldom match, you sell your excess electricity into the grid and use the income generated to offset the cost of your grid supply when your demand exceeds the amount being generated. Alternatively you can store surplus energy in a battery bank for supply during such periods.

Renewable Energy Projects

One British company has been installing micro hydro turbines for almost a century and is now busy refurbishing their original systems. Wherever there was a mill in the past or wherever there is a noisy cascade of water near a building or grid connection, there may be the potential for a private or commercial electricity generation scheme. A well-designed and installed hydro scheme will last many decades and be the most cost-effective of all renewable energy sources with revenues on small schemes of over £1,000 per kilowatt of installed capacity, giving a payback of as little as five years.

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