Save Money on Electricity by Building Your Own Wind Turbine
Who doesn’t want to save money and more importantly who doesn’t want to save money on electricity? Let’s face it – we have become reliant upon electricity to the point that we need it to work, live and play. Can you think of your life without electricity? How would it change? Most people would find that they can’t live without a reliable source of electricity – this is why we need to save money on electricity.
There are many ways that you can save money on electricity which we have gone into detail about previously and include:
- Switch to low power lighting such as LED lamps and Compact Fluorescent lamps
- Use clothing to keep warm in winter instead of turning on your electric heater – heating is one of the most energy draining uses in the average household
- Install a solar hot water system – Many governments offer rebates and incentives to install solar hot water systems
The list can go on and on about how you can save money on electricity around the house. Let’s change our school of thought and think about where the electricity comes from. The majority of your electricity comes from the grid and is produced by coal and nuclear power plants. This power is then sold to you the consumer via the utility company leaving you at ransom to the rate per kWh they want to charge you to access the power. The answer to getting around this cost is to install your own renewable energy such as a residential wind turbine.
Wind turbines have been around for centuries and have been used to pump water through to powering boats however the most rapidly growing trend in wind turbines is to install them at home to power your house. Buying a wind turbine can be expensive – in most cases you will be looking at around $12,000 USD before government rebates to buy and install a vertical wind turbine. For this very reason we suggest that you build your own wind turbine using proven wind turbine plans.
Many of our readers have followed our suggestion and grabbed themselves these wind turbine plans and have built themselves a vertical wind turbine to power their own home. These wind turbines can be built for as little as $200 and can produce around $4000 USD worth of electricity each and every year. We have had many comments from our readers that this wind turbine kit produced enough electricity for their home and the excess electricity was put back onto the grid which meant that they get a check from the utility company at the end of the month. That’s right – they were actually given money by the energy company because they sold them the excess electricity that they didn’t use!
You can save money in a number of ways however saving money by installing a home wind turbine could actually make you some money and will benefit the environment at the same time. We suggest that you look at our review of the best wind turbine plans and start your project building your own wind turbine and saving money on your electricity bill.
