As I talked about in the last Ask The Sietch post, The Sietch used to have an “Ask The Sietch” section where people would write in with questions. During one of the more radical site redesigns the feature was lost. Well it seems that the need for answers is not dead! We have another. So for time being I have decided to revive the Ask The Sietch. If you have questions about renewable energy or any questions feel free to contact us and we will do our best to answer your question.
This week Daniel asks:
I was wondering if you could give me some info on where to buy and what the avg price is on a 1.5 to 3 MW wind generator
Well Daniel first off you are talking about some serious hardware here. This is not going to be cheap. So first lets talk about price. I made a few phone calls to various governmental and non-profit agencies that I know of that help to finance these large guys and I got figures of 3 to 6 million dollars. These are ruff estimates, but you can be assured that you are not going to get in for under 3 million.
As to where to buy them, there are various large wind turbine sellers.
Here is a short list of some of the biggest turbine manufactures. This is not the entire list but these are the movers and shakers in the industry. You could contact any of them to purchase one.
Dear Sir
We are the ICREP Co. Ltd (Iraq land Contractors and Renewable Energy Projects) Co. Ltd.
We have a new contact with AL-Anbar governorship to install a wind farm of 20Mwatt power
In AL-Rutba city at the far west of Iraq, we already install wind turbine of 20kw we have a very well qualify engineers in our company, so we need a full offer from you include the items below:-
1- No. of units (towers) we need to get 20Mw of electric power and full data sheet of unit.
2- The price of single unit includes training on installation and maintenance of such units for 7 engineers.
3- After signing the contract three engineers from our side attending the factory test before shipping the generators.
4- Warranty term.
5- Age of generator, times of periodic maintenance and cost of each.
Thank you
Best regards
Omar Hussain
Manager of ICREP Co. Ltd.
sir,
i go to school in missouri. and in my American history class we are doing a project of a new museum for our town. and we have to have a floor plan, and tell how we are going to have power, and how it might help our environment. My team and I figured we should try solar panels, and wind turbines, but we have to know how much it would cost to install, for the turbine itself, and possibly how long the warranty is.
i would appreciate it if you would answer back asap
estimate $1/W.