Your Questions About Wind Turbines Cost

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Hey Bad Girl, Mama is pretty close on the facts. To be exact, most large commercial utility sized wind turbines installed in the US today are 2 Megawatts (MW) in size. There is a mechanical reason for this size. Twenty or so years ago when they first started building these big wind farms, the turbines ranged in size from a few hundred Kilowatts to 1 MW. The electricity they produced had to be converted to match the grids AC frequency. Once turbines started exceeding 150 feet in rotor diameter, it was possible to gear them to a generator that would directly tie to the grid and eliminate the converting equipment, which was costly and prone to breakdown. But it’s still difficult today to build turbines a great deal larger than that size, even with new technology, the blades just get too long. So the 2 MW turbine fits nicely between the too small size for direct connection to the grid, and too large to be reliably manufactured.

A new commercially built 2 MW turbine costs between 3 and 4 million USD today, depending on which materials are used, the shipping and installation costs. If you want to see this information yourself, there are a couple great websites to check out, I will list them below. Good luck, and take care, Rudydoo

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I would guess around 800 to 1800 after Uncle Sam’s re-bate (1/3,,isn’t it?). I’m sure make/model have a variance in Price. 800 – 1800 is probably the cheapest on earth,,,you can find them going for.
What about getting power from boyies ,,you know the bobbie little things in the water? My b/f was telling me you can get a Crapload of power from bouncin boeyies. That would be free to get the power,,if you can figure out a ‘rig’.
Try the intenet for instructions

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The cost is usually $1,000,000.00 per MegaWatt.” That is, a 1.5 megawatt turbine is $1,500,000.00. The ones you see range from about 750,000 kilowatts ($750,000.00) to 3.0 Megawatts ($3,000,000.00). That includes the cost of the equipment, the cost of construction, the cost of acquiring the land, and the cost of hooking to the electric grid. The cost is hard to find because all those factors are each charged by a different group (GE might build the towers, Babcock might do the construction; WindWorksCo might acquire the land, etc.) But in the wind industry, we use the million-per-megawatt number as a rule of thumb.

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It will cost about $150 and how long??well it depends if you install it fast and may be around 3-4 days you can genertae your own free electricity..

Http://www.windpowercost.org/

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How long is a piece of string?

Small wind turbines used to charge 12V batteries on sailboats cost a few hundred dollars, while large turbines in the range of 1 MW capacity will cost several million…plus the envoronmental study and interconnection costs.

In general, economies of scale will apply so that the larger the turbine, the lower the cost per unit of electricity.