what power wind turbine would i need to power an average house. there is plenty of wind where i live?

Question

to power a cooker ,shower, sockets and lights

Answer 1

The average person uses 4000 Kwh per year
which for 200 days of wind is 20 Kwh per day.
You would need 3 kw turbine to power the house.
Note: 3 kw turbine is the max rating not average.
ie. if the average is 1/3 or 1Kw you get 24kwh in 24 hrs.
See the sight:
http://www.kgelectric.co.za/wind_generators.htm

However,
There are economies of scale in wind turbines, i.e. larger machines are usually able to deliver electricity at a lower cost than smaller machines. The reason is that the cost of foundations, road building, electrical grid connection, plus a number of components in the turbine (the electronic control system etc.), are somewhat independent of the size of the machine.

Answer 2

The problem you will have powering a single house is the highly varying nature of the power demand.

At night, after everyone has gone to bed, the household demand is as low as a few 10s of watts - an alarm clock or two, the displays on a VCR and a microwave, perhaps a cell phone charger and a cordless phone base station.

Then the refrigerator will kick in and you have a very short-term peak load of over a kilowatt, as the motor starts, which then settles down to a couple hundred watts. But if it is a frost-free refrigerator, when it goes into defrost mode the heater may draw between 1/2 and 1 kW.

During the day you will switch on some lights, perhaps some electric cooking appliances, maybe a couple of air conditioners. You can easily have a demand of 5 kW or so, sustained for several minutes. If you have an electric stove, electric water heater, or electric dryer, you add between 3 and 10 kW to that load for each appliance.

So, it comes down to this: you add up the power of all the appliances you think you will ever want to run at the same time. You should add 25% to allow for non-unity power factor and to leave some excess capacity to start motors. That's your minimum wind turbine. If you have a house with electric heating appliances, it is likely to be a shockingly large number. (although if a lot of your demand is due to heating, then the 25% safety factor is too generous.)

Answer 3

the small kind of wind turbine. It powers the average house and cost around $9000 to $22000 per wind turbine. They are clean ,quiet, and dont interfere with the TV or Radio.

Answer 4

It is not cost-efficient to power ONE house with ONE wind turbine, since creating useful 3-cycle 220 V AC power involves considerable equipment .

Answer 5

Plenty is not an engineering term.

Answer 6

showers use water. you mean pump?
you can't run heavy wattage appliances,
no toaster,heater,cooker
read
http://store.solar-electric.com/wind.html
MIKE