Jay; The fuzzy definition of "small" in most customer's minds makes it hard to answer the question. I absolutely recommend anything by Bergey, but their "smallest" is 10kW, well within the industry definition of small, but pretty huge and expensive for the typical off-grid residential home.
I would feel fairly comfortable with turbines certified by the Small Wind Certification Council (https://smallwindcertification.org/) but they don't gather long-term reliability data. There's a 5kW turbine listed that I hadn't heard of before, and the Skystream 3.7kW (which was bought by a different company than the Whisper series.) The SWWP Whispers were decent machines, but I'm not sure why they are not listed there by the new company owner. For remote off-grid situations without AHJ issues, lots of folks have had good results with Hugh Piggott-style turbines, and there are people out there that make and install them well. But they are not a commercial product, not UL listed or AHJ-friendly, etc., I don't know anything about the Hurricane turbines that Dan Lepinski mentions in this thread, but certainly worth checking out. And maybe dive a little deeper into what's up with the Whispers under their new owner. Rohn towers are a great solution, but as Dan L mentions they are not tilt-up. Dan Fink Owner, Buckville Energy Consulting LLC IREC Certified Instructor for PV and Small Wind Installation NABCEP Certified PV System Inspector NABCEP PV Associate d <dan.f...@greendustrialtraining.com>anbo...@gmail.com 970-672-4342 On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 2:48 PM Jay <jay.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dan > > Are there any wind machines you would recommend? > > Jay > Peltz Power > >
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