Industrial Strength Wind Turbines
When it comes to Industrial strength wind turbines pricing is usually set a complete system delivered. The price for a wind turbine like the ones shown below is 2.8 million dollars per system, including turbine, tower and blades. Each of the turbines is
estimated to generate 1.3 megawatts. This is much larger than would be needed for a residential home.
Eventually the price per unit is going to go down. In these days of wind farms, the contracts are for dozens if not hundreds per contract. Not a per blade price, but for several blades per turbine. Why you may ask?
There is an old factor in manufacturing, 10 X = 1/2. Make 10 times as many of something, and the cost per unit drops in half. The pocket calculator going from $129 for my first simple calculator, to a pretty nice scientific model available at the local Dollar Store is a classic sample of what a larger manufacturing lot will do to the per unit cost. This is called economies of scale and it definitely applies to wind turbines.
Both Solar Cells and Windmills have been hovering near the breakeven point
for some years. With thousands of windmills going up, the per unit cost
has now reached the point where investors can put up a windmill and expect
to get a return on their investment selling electricity at the going rates.
We just need the economic justification to build that factory that makes
several thousand square feet of solar cells and wind turbines a day to push them over the
economic edge.
Eventually the price per unit is going to go down. In these days of wind farms, the contracts are for dozens if not hundreds per contract. Not a per blade price, but for several blades per turbine. Why you may ask?
There is an old factor in manufacturing, 10 X = 1/2. Make 10 times as many of something, and the cost per unit drops in half. The pocket calculator going from $129 for my first simple calculator, to a pretty nice scientific model available at the local Dollar Store is a classic sample of what a larger manufacturing lot will do to the per unit cost. This is called economies of scale and it definitely applies to wind turbines.
Both Solar Cells and Windmills have been hovering near the breakeven point
for some years. With thousands of windmills going up, the per unit cost
has now reached the point where investors can put up a windmill and expect
to get a return on their investment selling electricity at the going rates.
We just need the economic justification to build that factory that makes
several thousand square feet of solar cells and wind turbines a day to push them over the
economic edge.
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