How much energy does your household use per year? Please tell me how many members and the energy use in kw if possible. The reason I ask is I've been looking into buying a wind turbine to generate power but don't really know the wattage I should be looking at. also interrested to see how much for single vs couples vs couples with kids and so forth to properly analyse the average energy use. This would be to see how big is big enough versus cost of the turbine and set up and maintenance... Thanks in advance to all those that reply
To tell ya how much a household uses in a year would be a matter of kw/h, not kw. But, a house will typically need something that provide 10-15 kw. 10's really the absolute minimum and 12-15 is more like it during peak draw. Unless ya live in a particularly windy area, I doubt ya can really expect to get that much from a wind turbine, which could take decades to pay for itself. Also, if ya have a lot of neighbors ya can prob'ly expect a good number of noise complaints on the occasions there is enough wind for any halfway significant output. This is quite common with wind turbines near residential areas.
thanks for the info. It would be out in the country so hopefully no noise complaints. anyone else have some numbers for me. in kw/h per month or something of the sort. thanks.
I typically use around 10 kw per day and my house is in Spain and runs totally off solar power. I have every conceivable electric appliance you could think of and also this system runs a 1kw/h water pump. Obviously I don't run them all at once. I have very few periods in which I require to use the generator as I have 30kw of backup power stored in the batteries and the fact that it rarely goes more than 3 days without sun where I live. I also need to not run any appliances that use electric "phantomly" such as leaving a tv on standby, as they continue to use electric I can really recommend solar power as an alternative. I know people in Spain with a wind turbine that is only about 60cms (2 foot) in diametre and this is useful and makes no noise. Also available are water generators which are very good should you be in a position to tap into a free source of water such as a stream etc.
man yer in luck sss only cuz i am sittin here payin power bill now,,,, we are in north Ga and do not heat or anything else with power,,,, other than a small lil energy hog space heater now in use for greenhouse purposes,,,,, there are 4 of us in house one kid,,,, we do have fish tanks comps, freezers etc here,,, and this bill here is the highest i have ever seen in the 3 yrs i have been here,,, by about 30 bux,,,, dunno why tho,,,, this month was 31 days in period ,, total kwh was 1633 with an average of 52 kwh per day at a cost of 4.23 per day.... more average though is last months which had 33 days in period, for 1285 kwh total for month and 38 kwh per day and 3.35 cost per day..... hope this helps
