Posted by Dan-IA on March 02, 2008 at 00:29:32 from (71.7.36.196):
In Reply to: OT wind generators posted by farmer101IL on March 01, 2008 at 19:21:16:
About a year ago I strolled into my local Rural Electric Cooperative and asked about this. The fancy term is called "Net Metering". My REC said that they buy the electricity wholesale from Corn Belt LLC and that Corn Belt is who would be paying for your excess power -- at a rate of about 5% of what you pay in per kWh. They said that I'd need to sit down and arrange for formal contract arrangements - after showing and demonstrating my power sources and being certified as a 'green' power source. Then several meters would be installed in order to avoid my use of the grid as a "storage battery" for my intermittent power generation.
When we ran the numbers we determined that we'd need to put up some really big wind generator to break even inside of 30 years on the investment. Better instead, we determined, to use the wind generators to charge batteries and go mostly off-grid, if we were indeed looking to reduce our electric bill.
Not to discourage you, though, it's a great hobby. But if you're looking to net-meter and power the grid, I hope you've got much deeper pockets than I do. :)
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