Has the price of wind generators depressed you? Consider a build it yourself wind generator kit!

You can find these kits at many places, you can find them online, Amazon even carries some, as does Samsclub.

Awea.org tells us that a typical home uses about 9,400 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per year. That’s about 780 kWh per month. They also say that dependent upon the average wind speed in the area, a wind turbine rated in the range of 5 to 15 kilowatts would be required to make a significant contribution to meet this demand.

I took a look at one of Sams wind generators. A 400 watt system sans tower runs about $600. Probably only big enough to run an appliance or two, not big enough to run your whole house.

I noticed Amazon has one that’s bigger, they’ve a 900 watt one for around two grand. That’s not ‘blowin’ in the wind’.

If we use the figure about of 780 kwh per month (for a typical home) that would be about 26 kwh per day. A kilowatt is 1000 watts. So the typical home would use 2600 watts per day.

If you live in an area with steady winds it looks like the higher priced model might be able to consume a third of your electric bill. Payout would be pretty quick considering the low cost of the turbine (when compared to a solar system.)