Offering a cost-effective alternative to solar and utility-provided electricity, Pecos Wind Power is developing a low cost, 85kW distributed wind turbine. Noting that in the US alone, there is sufficient distributed wind resource to meet 100% of the nations electricity demand, the firm's management suggest that the resource has largely remained untapped due to basic economics. Distributed wind turbines have not kept pace with the declining costs of other electricity sources: distributed solar and utility-scale wind. To take advantage of the increasing trend towards a decentralized grid and a growing customer demand for on-site renewable electricity, Pecos Wind personnel - having previously worked in the utility-scale turbine industry where they witnessed a reduction in the cost of those devices of over 50% in 10 years - are applying the same design techniques: innovative tilt-up tower system and a rotor optimized for low wind speed power production to bring similar cost reductions to distributed wind turbines . The expectation is a cost of energy the coul dbe 40% less than the best-selling distributed wind turbine in its class.
