Step 3: Research Residential Wind Turbines Available In Your Area

Today we're going to follow-up on Monday's post 5 Steps To Determine If Residential Wind Power Is Right For You with more details about how to tackle step three.

There is a great resource available from the Canadian Wind Energy Association to help you research residential wind turbines available in your area and determine manufacturer estimates of how much energy you can expect each turbine to produce. They maintain a list of Small Wind Turbine Equipment Providers that are available to the Canadian market. This list contains links to manufacturers from all over the world, so it will be useful to you even if you don't live in Canada. The nice thing about this resource is that the manufacturers are separated by the turbine size the company offers: mini wind turbines (300 W to 1 kW), small wind turbines (above 1 kW to 30 kW) and medium wind turbines (above 30 kW to 300 kW).

If you live in the United States, you may want to consult with the list of Small Wind Turbine Equipment Providers in the U.S. This list has been compiled by the American Wind Energy Association and may contain some American companies that have not yet been added to the previous list that was mentioned.

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