I just had a weatherization assessment from a contractor hired by Oklahoma's energy providers. If a homeowner has less than $50,000-something annual income, the home can be weatherized for FREE! My 50-year-old home, which I bought a year ago, has deficient attic insulation and various leaks, which I won't have to pay a cent for now that…
I just had a weatherization assessment from a contractor hired by Oklahoma's energy providers. If a homeowner has less than $50,000-something annual income, the home can be weatherized for FREE! My 50-year-old home, which I bought a year ago, has deficient attic insulation and various leaks, which I won't have to pay a cent for now that I'm retired. I was told that this benefits the energy companies because it will cut down on the need for power shutoffs or outages which affect thousands of people during weather events. However, building homes to good energy standards is just plain common sense. I hope your wind turbine will be a quiet one. There were several residential turbines in Maine that you could hear a half mile away. Not sure why that was allowed.
In the UK, every so often the government offers an incentive for one thing or another. We got insulation blown into the air space behind the brick exterior walls from one of those offers. Doing it was a risk. Sometimes that infill wicks moisture from the brick wall inward and mold starts to grow in the walls. Getting the infill was free, but remediating that type of problem is expensive and the homeowner is generally on the hook for that cost.
Right now there is an incentive to subsidize switching to air source heat pumps. That's an expensive retrofit to a conventionally built modern British house, and a number of people who have done it say it costs more to heat their homes that way than it did to heat with gas or oil. I hope we'll find a better alternative in the future.
There are regulations here that limit installation of microwind turbines at a home. If certain restrictions can be met, it can be installed without getting planning permission (which would be cumbersome, slow to get, and costly). We can meet the restrictions. The model I have in mind is about a meter tall and its fins spin in a circle of about a meter. It has a vertical shaft, maximum output of 5 kW, and noise rating of 30 db. The installers have decided to put one on their office first, instead of the model they had been considering, so we'll get to see and hear how it runs before putting one here.
I just had a weatherization assessment from a contractor hired by Oklahoma's energy providers. If a homeowner has less than $50,000-something annual income, the home can be weatherized for FREE! My 50-year-old home, which I bought a year ago, has deficient attic insulation and various leaks, which I won't have to pay a cent for now that I'm retired. I was told that this benefits the energy companies because it will cut down on the need for power shutoffs or outages which affect thousands of people during weather events. However, building homes to good energy standards is just plain common sense. I hope your wind turbine will be a quiet one. There were several residential turbines in Maine that you could hear a half mile away. Not sure why that was allowed.
In the UK, every so often the government offers an incentive for one thing or another. We got insulation blown into the air space behind the brick exterior walls from one of those offers. Doing it was a risk. Sometimes that infill wicks moisture from the brick wall inward and mold starts to grow in the walls. Getting the infill was free, but remediating that type of problem is expensive and the homeowner is generally on the hook for that cost.
Right now there is an incentive to subsidize switching to air source heat pumps. That's an expensive retrofit to a conventionally built modern British house, and a number of people who have done it say it costs more to heat their homes that way than it did to heat with gas or oil. I hope we'll find a better alternative in the future.
There are regulations here that limit installation of microwind turbines at a home. If certain restrictions can be met, it can be installed without getting planning permission (which would be cumbersome, slow to get, and costly). We can meet the restrictions. The model I have in mind is about a meter tall and its fins spin in a circle of about a meter. It has a vertical shaft, maximum output of 5 kW, and noise rating of 30 db. The installers have decided to put one on their office first, instead of the model they had been considering, so we'll get to see and hear how it runs before putting one here.