Turbotricity

Turbotricity 2.5kw domestic wind turbines are designed to be rugged, affordable, trouble free, but most of all, productive in a wide range of wind conditions, particularly light winds. How do we aim to do this?

For years, we’ve wondered how a tower, generator, blades and some simple electronics could cost more than the average family car.

If we stop thinking of domestic wind turbines as being a niche market, maybe they will become a bit more commonplace. Pay a good design team to come up with a simple effective design, put the components together using quality suppliers, and put a normal trading mark-up on to get a return on our investment which nobody would begrudge.

That’s the best we can do. While we are still designing some components, our target price for this turbine is about €8,000 plus VAT, including an 11.5m free standing tower, grid-tie inverter and controller.

We now have the first prototype up and running in Scotland. We are putting up a second prototype in one of the windiest coastal regions for testing over the wild winter months, and are surveying a few sites in Ireland. When we’re satisfied that the system is de-bugged (probably by March next year) we will be ready to launch what will be the best possible combination of reliability, productivity and price anywhere.

And, we hope to have a few clever elements in the controller that you haven’t seen before, but we’ll only reveal these as they are proven to be reliable.