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Installation and maintenance costs for your personal wind turbine will vary greatly depending on local zoning, permitting and utility interconnection. Learn more about incentives and rebates offered in your area to help best calculate overall cost. The price of the turbine itself will also vary depending on tower height and type of installation requirements for your site. While costs do vary, a Skystream installed on a 45 ft (13 m) tower ranges from $17 - $20K.
What really matters is the cost to society. With current subsidy methods, it costs around 3Â¢/kWh of subsidy to get wind turbines built [2011 update, Iâm now hearing from insiders that more like a 5Â¢/kWh subsidy may be required]. This is because the up-front costs of wind turbines are huge and the payback takes twenty years.