Home Wind Turbine

Interest in the home wind turbine is stronger than ever, what with oil prices through the roof and no end in sight to geopolitical problems arising from fossil fuel issues. There are still challenges, however, before the home wind turbine takes off and becomes generally accepted as a viable alternative to grid energy.

One obstacle to home wind power, however, isn’t as much of an obstacle as one might think.  That is local zoning boards, or HOAs.  People who don’t know a lot about home wind turbines sometimes imagine large, noisy pole mounted blades that ruin the neighborhood’s visual attractiveness.  This is not always true these days.  Usually these people, and the local zoning boards just need to be educated about the home wind turbine kits.

After HOAs are educated about the home wind turbine kits then they will usually rewrite ordinances to allow the systems.  There also many laws on the books that overwrite HOA rules.  Some towns have laws that supercede local ordinances.

Going up a level, some states have laws that overwrite town ordinances for the home wind turbine.  The up another level of legislation, we have federal laws that supersede any HOA rules for solar energy home systems.  That’s not yet the case for the home wind turbine but they’re working on it.  While the feds aren’t superseding any state laws for wind we are seeing some states are are overriding local ordinances for wind.