The Sunforce 44444 12-Volt 400-Watt Wind Generator is a smart addition to your existing renewable power systems. It provides up to 400 Watts or 27 Amps of power at maximum efficiency. The fully integrated regulator automatically shuts the unit down when the batteries are charged to minimize wear.

The Sunforce 44444 12-Volt 400-Watt Wind Generator features a durable aluminum body and lightweight carbon fiber blades that are optimized for maximum efficiency and low noise. It is completely weatherproof, and the patented high-wind over-speed technology keeps the unit safe in high wind and stormy conditions. Assembly is required, but this generator installs easily and mounts to any sturdy pole, building, or the Sunforce 44455 Wind Generator 30-Foot Tower Kit.

Skystream 3.7 is designed to make wind power accessible to more people than ever before. The first small wind generator designed specifically for grid-connected residential use, Skystream 3.7 from Southwest Windpower lets Americans harness wind energy and take control of their energy bills like never before.

Skystream 3.7 offers a simple, all-in-one solution to harnessing wind energy on a residential scale. Different from all other technologies, Skystream 3.7 is the first all-inclusive wind generator with the controls and inverter built in.

Designed for very low winds, Skystream 3.7™ begins producing power in an 8 mph breeze with full output achieved at 20 mph

The high performance, reliable WindMax wind turbine features advanced electromagnetic over speed control, aerodynamic blade speed limitation, solar/wind dual output capability, reliable light weight generator design using die-casting technique and high performance rare earth neodymium magnets, advanced airfoil designed blades made of mixed nylon and reinforced fiber glass using injection molding and thermoplastic technologies for consistency, high strength. HYenergy Windmax Wind Turbines are the one of the most well built, reliable, most efficient and cost-effective small wind turbines available on the market today. The HYenergy Wind turbine system is the perfect choice in a smart investment for a renewable energy solution built on advanced technologies.

Power your entire home, cabin or workshop with this super quiet wind turbine. It delivers an incredible 3000 Watts of power at 24 MPH. The Southwest WindPower Whisper 500 Wind Turbine kit comes with a controller to protect the turbine. It provides 538 kW per month in a 12 MPH average wind and works in winds as low as 7.5 MPH.

The turbine boasts a 15-foot diameter rotor which has carbon reinforced fiberglass blades, and the alternator has steel body with powder-coat finish. This is a very well made and dependable home wind turbine.

A home, or residential wind turbine, which is installed on top of a tall tower, operates by collecting kinetic energy from the wind and converting it to electricity. Electricity that is usable and compatible with a home’s electrical system.

In a typical home wind turbine setup, your house is powered by both the wind turbine and a local utility. If the wind speeds are below cut-in speed (7-10 mph) there will be no output from the turbine and all of the needed power is purchased from the utility.

As wind speeds increase, turbine output increases and the amount of power purchased from the utility is proportionately decreased. When the turbine produces more power than the house needs, the extra electricity is sold to the utility.

The wind turbine typically lowers your electricity bill by 50% to 90%. It is normal for wind turbine owners with total-electric homes to have monthly utility bills from $8 to $15 for 75% of the year.

An industrial wind turbine, which is installed on top of a tall tower, collects kinetic energy from the wind and converts it to electricity that is compatible with a home’s electrical system.

In a normal residential application, a home is served simultaneously by the wind turbine and a local utility. If the wind speeds are below cut-in speed (7-10 mph) there will be no output from the turbine and all of the needed power is purchased from the utility. As wind speeds increase, turbine output increases and the amount of power purchased from the utility is proportionately decreased. When the turbine produces more power than the house needs, the extra electricity is sold to the utility. All of this is done automatically. There are no batteries in a modern residential wind system.

The U.S. market for small wind turbines with capacities of 100 kilowatts and less, grew 78 percent in 2008, with a total of 17.3 megawatts of new installed capacity, according to a new study from The American Wind Energy Association. About 38.7 MW of new small wind capacity was installed globally in 2008.

AWEA recently reported that more than 2,800 WM of wind energy was installed in the United States over the first quarter of 2009, which is enough to power 816,000 homes. The largest segment of the market is residential (1-10 kW), where growth was also driven by investment and manufacturing economies of scale, together with rising residential electricity prices and a heightened public awareness of wind energy.

Think you have to spend a bunch of money to buy contraption to be a member of the wind turbine club? Think again. Rooftop wind turbines are becoming more and more popular. Rooftop turbines send the electricity they generate straight on to the homeowner’s circuit box, thus reducing their utility bills while using a renewable resource.

For example, the Swift Wind Turbine is both compact and quiet. By installing a wind turbine, users can reduce their carbon emissions as well as lower their electricity bills. When the wind is blows at 30 miles an hour or more, it will generate 1.5 kilowatts of electrical power However, these turbines can still run between $10 - $12,000 but state and federal incentives will help buyers supplement the cost.

Jay Leno has brought the power of wind to NBC.com. In the above video, Leno discusses MagLev wind turbine, a turbine that levitates on a magnetic field. Because the turbine uses less resistance, more energy is conserved and there is less mechanical wear. This MagLev turbine is going in Ed Begley’s house, but Leno says he’ll get a bigger one.

Southwest Windpower CEO Andy Kruse is currently in Washington lobbying the government for better small wind turbine subsidies. Individual homeowners would stand to benefit, as the Skystream wind turbine would fall under this new subsidizing should it be approved.

Currently the wind power stimulus package has a $4,000 cap on it. Kruse would like to see that increased to 30% of the cost of a wind turbine in the form of a federal tax credit.

What is interesting about Kruse’s crusade is that he is also emphasizing the importance of wind turbine software and wireless Internet in rural areas. If the federal government provided better financial incentives for this kind of support, Kruse claims, wind power consumers would benefit from detailed information on the relative availability of wind in a given location.

Kruse points out that knowing how much wind energy a particular site is capable of producing is invaluable. If a certain area has high electricity costs and strong winds a home wind turbine could pay for itself in five years. If the opposite is the case however, and electricity costs are low and wind is weak then it could take as many as 20 years.

Rural wireless Internet access is important because some of Southwest Windpower’s turbines have LAN capability. If all these wind turbines were linked over the Internet Southwest Windpower would be able to recognize any potential problems remotely.

With wind turbines connected via a smart grid a wind turbine’s voltage could be changed from a computer should the grid needs some of the turbine’s load to be reduced.

Assessing where strong winds blow is crucial to determining whether a location will provide sufficient wind energy on a turbine. Last year 3Tier revealed their free wind resource map which charts the average wind strength of any given location on the planet. Through 3Tier Southwest Windpower believes that approximately 13 million locations in the U.S. alone are suitable for the use of their home wind turbines.