The Results Are In: Innovative Wind Turbine "Cluster Effect" Makes Small Wind Competitive With Solar

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Wind power company Flower Turbines has now proven its cutting-edge wind turbines have a synergistic cluster effect. This innovation means each turbine’s performance is improved and more energy is produced when the turbines are placed close together. These turbines can now be purchased from the company's website, and Flower Turbines has started an investment round as well.

Flower Turbines is making small wind as competitive as small solar in value for the price when multiple turbines are installed together. Its line of patented small wind turbines has undergone tests that demonstrated these turbines have a patented “cluster effect” that improves turbine operation. 

Unlike traditional turbines, whose performance decreases when placed too close together, Flower Turbines’ turbines aerodynamically enhance each other’s performance. When they are properly packed together, the turbines create wind tunnels to feed each other, and as a result, they perform better and produce more energy.

The Flower Turbines Difference

The global solar power market is projected to total over $320.52 billion by 2028, with residential solar panel installations increasing by 34% from 2020 to 2021 as more households opt for renewables.

Even though solar is already in mass production, Flower Turbines may reduce energy costs to below the costs of solar in some areas of the country if enough turbines can be installed for a maximized cluster effect. It takes about 17 solar panels to produce energy sufficient to power an average US household – as the average US household consumes over 10,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) every year, or about 880 kWh per month.

Flower Turbines’ cluster effect, caused by the blades’ aerodynamic design, is helping make wind competitive with solar. This means these turbines can be scaled to increase energy production and the return on investment (ROI). The more that are installed, the more their energy output is increased, with the amount of energy doubled with every four turbines. In effect, the purchase of four turbines gives four for free, and these numbers can be scaled.

This is a simulation of wind from the left entering a cross-section of the turbine from the left. The red, higher velocity areas on the side show how the cluster effect works--by driving wind tunnels into adjacent turbines.

Costing Out The Turbine’s Cluster Effect

The cluster effect is best understood when looking at examples of how it works to produce more energy and deliver a faster ROI.

Five of the small turbines with 6 feet (2 meters) high blades at wind 6 meters per second (13 mph) will produce 6000 kWh per year – but 10 small turbines should produce 24000 kWh per year, quadrupling the energy production of five turbines. The average 400-watt solar panel only produces 730 kWh a year (based on an average of 2 kWh a day) – meaning 32 solar panels would be needed to match the energy production of 10 of Flower Turbines’ wind turbines.

Meanwhile, the ROI is also competitive, as the ROI is quadrupled when installing 10 instead of five turbines. 

Also, there are subsidies available for renewable energy that can even further increase this cost-effectiveness. Subsidies range in amount but can cover up to 30% of the cost. A 30% subsidy on the $60,000 expense for 10 turbines reduces the cost to $42,000, and now the ROI is even better.

The numbers are even better when considering the company’s large turbines, one of which is priced at $14,000. In an average wind speed of 6 meters per second (13 miles per hour), one turbine produces around 1 kWh, but 10 produce 45 kWh, for 394,200 kWh per year. With the average kWh nationally costing 16 cents, the value of the electricity is $63,000. As the investment was for $140,000 plus installation, the return would be made in just over two years. 

As renewables can be weather dependent, a combination of wind and solar could also be a great choice for an off-grid setup that doesn’t rely on an external energy distribution network.

Flower Turbines is selling its turbines today. And the company has launched its fourth round of investing to scale up. Click here to learn about investing in Flower Turbines.

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