Wind Power For Dummies

Name: Wind Power For Dummies
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ISBN: 9780470496374

Overview

The consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production!

Maybe you're not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard. Wind Power For Dummies supplies all the guidance you need to install and maintain a sustainable, cost-effective wind generator to power your home for decades to come.

This authoritative, plain-English guide walks you through every step of the process, from assessing your site and available wind sources to deciding whether wind power is the solution for you, from understanding the mechanics of wind power and locating a contractor to install your system to producing your own affordable and sustainable electricity.

Guides you

step by step through process of selecting, installing, and operating a small-scale wind generator to power your home

Demystifies system configurations, terminology, and wind energy principles to help you speak the language of the pros

Helps assess and reduce your energy needs and decide whether wind power is right for you

Explains the mechanics of home-based wind power

Shows you how to tie into the grid and sell energy back to the power company

Offers advice on evaluating all of the costs of and financing for your project

Provides tips on working with contractors and complying with local zoning laws

Yes, you can do it, with a little help from Wind Power For Dummies.

About The Author

Ian Woofenden is a Senior Editor with Home Power magazine, the Northwest & Costa Rica Coordinator with Solar Energy International, and a wind-energy author, consultant, and instructor. He has been living off-grid with his family and several wind generators for almost 30 years.

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CHEAT SHEET

After you decide that your home is a good candidate for wind power, you need to understand the basic parts of wind-electric systems and how they fit together. In addition, you need to evaluate how much energy your home needs and how much wind your site actually gets — a realistic wind resource assessment is key.