Honeywell Wind Turbine In Windsor Ontario
CBC News – September 25, 2009
The Honeywell Wind Turbine, displayed here in a company pamphlet, measures six metres in diameter and can produce 2,000 kilowatts of energy a year, or about 18 per cent of an average household’s electricity needs. (WindTronics)
A U.S. wind turbine manufacturer has announced a $5.4-million deal to begin production in Windsor, Ont.
Michigan-based WindTronics will produce small residential and commercial turbines at the former Innovatech Seating Systems plant on Sprucewood Avenue on the city’s west side. It will also conduct research and development.
The Ontario government will contribute $2.7 million to help WindTronics establish its Windsor operations. WindTronics will invest the balance.
The company hopes to create 174 jobs at the plant by 2012, but WindTronics president Reg Adams said there will also be “work in the installation process.”
“It takes two people a day to install a turbine,” he said. “For every couple of hundred of jobs we create here, it takes about a thousand jobs in the field.”
Built for houses, towers
The Windsor plant will produce the WT6000 Honeywell Wind Turbine, which measures 1.8 metres in diameter and weighs 77 kilograms.
It can be installed on the roofs of houses and industrial buildings, as well as towers and barns.
It can produce 2,000 kilowatts of energy per year, or what WindTronics estimates is up to 18 per cent of the electricity used by the average home.
Editor’s Note:
We reviewed this product earlier this year: See Home Wind Turbines and didn’t like the recommended mounting – just over your rooftop, or the rather missleading info on low speed startup (only 60 cents of electricity produced per year at 2 mph winds). Our suggested pricing at the time was also lower – $4,500 whereas the price may now be set at $5,995. If this is in fact the price of this wind turbine, we believe there are much better options available in the small home wind turbine market.
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