Windsave turbine Sherborne Primary school
Wind turbines extract power from the wind, to provide electricity. Small scale wind turbines range from 100W turbines seen on boats up to around 6kW mast mounted turbines which would provide electricity for several houses.
Find out more about Small scale Windpower including details of costs, grants, payback, planning and local installers here in our factsheet.
For recent research on roof mounted wind turbines see
The Warwick Wind Trials