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Originally Posted by Fries-With-That
Are you kidding me, summersun, I'm still working on a basic plan for some of the guys that pmmed me before christmas.( alas its not cost effective to set up a manafacturing plant in Ireland when they can be sourced so cheap overseas)
I have however noticed that there are several companies now selling wind turbines in Ireland and to be honest some of the prices they are charging are shocking.( in a non electric way)
I had a meeting with 2 members of one of these companies last week and they quoted me €4500 for a wind turbine fully installed depending on location.
I'm sure if you do a little internet searching you'll find that they are available far cheaper than that leaving you a couple of grand over to arrange installation yourself.
I have made contact with a company overseas that is prepared to supply me with a complete set up ( Turbine, Tower, Guy wires, Sine wave inverter This set up would cost approx €6500 here in Ireland),however I would need to order several to avail of a trade discount.
Chris or Dave feel free to delete this paragraph if its not appropiate.
If there are enough people interested in buying turbines I would be prepared to order them on a co operative basis ( everyone gets to see exactly how much they cost and no one makes profit).
From the figures I have recieved the savings would be massive ( several thousand) over the cheapest prices being quoted in Ireland/UK at the moment.
Regards,
Fries.
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Sine wave inverters? Beam me up Scotty! I honestly haven't a clue what you are talking about - but we have been wanting to put up a wind turbine for a while now! But can't afford it. Basically we are on my husband's non-contrib. pension. Not a technical brain cell between us, although I am slightly better than he is (I at least know how to set a time switch!). At one of those Sustainable Living fairs, we talked to a guy about turbines, and he said it would cost about 7,000 euro (sorry, don't know how to do euro sign!) to buy and install. We do live on a pretty windy spot, with the land sloping away behind us with a fall of about 100 feet. (wonderful view, but we pay for it with the wind!) But all this thread sounds very very interesting!!! Very interesting indeed! :-) We would certainly be interested in getting a turbine with your co-op idea if we could get someone who knew what they were doing to put it up and install it!