What does it cost to install a windmill on a farm in Ireland?

Question

What are the height restrictions? how much power does a windmill generate? can the spare electricity be sold to the ESB? what price would i get? how long would it take for the price of it take to

Answer 1

If you purchase a windmill - it could cost you up to $1000 000 (I found that out on my trip to Germany). But you could also build your own for few thousand dollars.

There are also a few sites which claim you could build your windmill for $200, like this one:

www.makeyourwindmill.info

Answer 2

I doubt that any substantial amount of energy could be generated from installing windmills on just one farm. For generating electricity, a series of windmills are usually spread over several kilometers of land that receives constant heavy winds.

If you instal 1 to 5 windmills you'd have barely enough electricity for one household, ESB wouldn't buy electricity off you unless you were providing a reasonably big amount of electricity which could only be generated by over 100 w.mills.

The costs involved are way too high for it to be a viable option, first the cost of erecting metal windmills, then the turbine connected to the windmill that generates electricity, stabilizing, distribution and storage equipment plus maintenance will make it very very expensive.

Anybody on the Internet or elsewhere who claims that they can get a windmill to generate electricity with little investment is nothing but a scam. Come to think of it, wouldn't the government just get rid of ESB (it is not a profitable venture for them anyway)  and install a windmill in everyone's backyard from which they can get free electricity without any pollution.

The reason wind energy has not been very successful in most parts of the world is that its too expensive, the only benefit being its pollution free.

Answer 3

Well, it would be very cheap if you build you own windmill. Look at the site: http://instantproducts.info