The Endurance Wind Turbine is doing exactly what we were told it would do. We love the way it’s built – to last decades – reliability and longevity is one of the key reasons we invested in the Endurance and when you see how its built then you can appreciate this.

We like the fact that the Endurance comes with a factory supplied tower, this ensured a quick and easy installation, even though it was well below freezing when we installed it. The Turbine mounted seamlessly to the tower and its tilt up function for ease of servicing and maintenance is a huge benefit of this product.

We live in a excellent wind zone for the Endurance Turbine between a class 2-3 wind zone – right between Lake Erie and Lake Michigan. We are already getting people from our area stopping by in interest and support for renewable energy. They are all pretty excited when they see our utility meter spinning backwards. We explain to them that we are feeding power back into the utility grid instead of consuming it which means Power Savings – they like that.

First Energy is the electric utility in our area. They have been very supportive of our project and this first installation took us about 3 months to get the approvals and permits organized. We would expect future installations of the Endurance to go much quicker due to the fact that these parties have now been exposed and understand the safety and reliability of the product.

Once First Energy engineers understood how the product connects and disconnects to the power grid and the redundant fail safe mechanisms Endurance has designed to ensure the turbine can work safely and efficiently with the power utility then there was no issues. Customers do need to fill out an application with the utility and a representative will come out to visit the site.

In Ohio, there are some great tax incentives for businesses who wish to install these types of wind turbines and the U.S. Government just passed a $ 4,000 tax credit to home owners who wish to produce their own power.

Thanks again for delivering on your product’s promises.

Art Miller and John Carder
Wauseon, Ohio

Well, it’s been a little breezy today. The Endurance fault tolerant braking system shut the turbine down due to high winds (65.2 mph). We waited a while and the blades began to turning again, Then the grid went down (only for about 5 minutes), and the turbine waited about 5 more and we were making power again.

Then the turbine shut down again (63.8 mph wind), I got impatient and started the turbine and did not let it cycle on its own this time, then the wind blew a little more… And in the 24 hours from 8:45 last night until 8:45 tonight, our meter for the turbine said … (really I read the meter and did the math) that our little windmill managed to produce 83 kwh of power in just the last 24 hours!

And as I get ready to send this e-mail – the control box says that we are still producing 4867 watts! WOW the Endurance is everything you promised. God bless global warming and the Endurance!

Andy Willard

Andrew, Raeleen, & The Boys
Hermon, NY

T Boone Pickens has been a huge supporter of Wind Energy for many years and has an incredible story to tell about North American’s dependency on foreign oil and our need as a nation to look at alternative resources for powering our homes and vehicles. Goto www.pickensplan.com

North America has an abundance of wind and clean natural gas. The Pickens Plan teaches and informs us of solutions to the issues that plague our country and economy.

Wind power is capable of producing 20-30% of our nation’s electricity in a matter of years and we all can help and participate in this regard. T Boone Pickens and many other corporations are investing in Large Wind Farms.

Endurance Wind Power offers small business, farmers and home owners the opportunity to participate in this initiative first hand, by producing their own power while their excess energy is sent back on to the Power Grid for
others to use. Endurance Wind Power makes it possible for all of us to participate in this important initiative.

As our new President of the United States gets ushered into power in January 2009, we’re confident that he will follow through on many of his plans to support alternative energy programs. Its already happening at the Federal
Level, in October 08, a new Federal Tax credit for small wind power was enacted that provides customers with up to a $ 4,000 tax credit with every new small wind turbine installation.

Endurance Wind Power urges you to learn more about Pickens Plan and join the army of Americans in support of this initiative. You can start changing America’s future today by supporting the Pickens Plan. goto www.pickensplan.com.

The need to lower our reliance on foreign oil is paramount and producing our own power is one of the best ways that we can do so.

Wanted to thank the Endurance team on an awesome product and let you know that it was a pleasure dealing with your company. We recently installed an Endurance S-250 on a 126 FT tiltable tower at our home in Texas. We were told the Endurance Wind Turbine would be extremely quiet so we installed it very close to our home. I had no idea how quiet it would be.

Friends who have had experience with other turbines told us we were crazy to install it just 120 ft from our house. They told us we wouldn’t get any sleep. This unit is so quiet that I could sleep right under it. I was just on my cell phone while at the base of the tower and the turbine was running in 20 MPH winds. My friend asked me where I was and I told him. He could not believe it, I could barely hear the wind turbine myself so I knew he couldn’t at the end of the other phone.

Blue Bonnet Electric, the utility interconnect that services our area in Texas was great to work with. They made the interconnection very straight forward and simple for us. There were 4 steps in the process;

1) Fill out an Interconnect Document

2) Send in the Endurance Documentation for Interconnection to the Utility Engineers for approval

3) Utility representative came out to the house to visit the site and we received approval

4) Once the Turbine was installed another representative from the utility visited to ensure the installation and interconnection was completed in a satisfactory and safe manner.

The utility had the following comments about the Endurance Turbine:

- Very impressed with the installation and the design of the Wind Turbine – one of the best designed turbines they had ever seen

- They like the class of turbine (size 5 KW) and how it worked from an operating stand point

- They really liked the fact that there were no batteries or inverters in the system – they felt the Endurance design would be much safer and reliable

- The utility even took pictures

By the way – Really like the design of the controller and the software. The Fact that all the information about the turbine appears in one screen is very helpful.

Thanks again.

Victor Hauk
Manor, TX

Hi everybody. As the latest members of the Martha’s Vineyard group Don and I are pretty excited. I am so obsessed that I have installed a web cam in the skylight in Don’s studio so that I can watch our turbine live from work (and show it off like a proud parent). If you want to see it you can go to Simon Bollin’s website: www.Ilovethevineyard.com

Pull down to the bottom of the page and on the left you will see a link to MV Wind Turbine. Click on the link and follow instructions. If you are crazy enough to want to watch your own turbine contact Vineyard Electronics and we can set you up. You will have to have a computer network connection near a window that can view the turbine or spend extra for an outdoor waterproof cover for the camera and the network connection to the location. We were lucky to have the skylight in the barn and a convenient network connection. There is only one window in our house that can actually see the turbine through the trees and there isn’t a convenient network connection near that skylight. If you want better resolution it gets pretty expensive. I am already tempted to upgrade the quality of the camera but I have decided to wait and see if the novelty wears off before spending the extra money.

Linda

By Ian E.M.Griffiths

Endurance Wind Power speaks a lot about Distributed Wind Power and with their unique turbine design they offer North Americans an affordable and cost effective way to produce their own power by connecting directly to the power grid. People, Farmers, Schools and Small business whom are looking for ways to produce their own power need to review the industry leading features of Endurance Wind Power products.

Sustainability. Carbon footprint. Global warming. CO2 emissions. Kyoto protocol. We all know the buzz words that frame the environmental crisis; the world is finally understanding the imperatives of implementing meaningful change. But how can we as individuals implement a planet-wide (and planet-wise) “green revolution”?

The driving personalities behind a story of stunning transformation were role models Jorgen Tranberg and Soren Hermansen. Thanks to them, and the innovative people on the island of Samso in Denmark, the answer to all of their problems (and maybe ours, too) was simply “blowin” in the wind”.

In less than 10 years, this bucolic island of 114 square kilometers of grazing land and farms weaned itself from a reliance on fossil fuels and conventional grid electricity to go totally off-grid. There are 21 turbines located on Samso, and it is the first island in the world to be entirely powered by renewable wind energy. The two hundred and fifty households on the island have also reduced their heating costs by 20%. The island is an excellent example of distributed power generation, exporting a 4% excess of energy from their windfarms and other sustainable energy resources to the mainland.

And to think, all of this sprang from a simple village get-together and the will to make it happen. Now that’s ecology that makes good economy!

(Source: The Geography of Hope by Chris Turner (Vintage Canada Edition 2008)

Ian Griffiths has taught Visual Art and Media Studies in Montreal for thirty-three years. As an artist, the power of nature and our relationship with the environment have played key roles in his painting. As a role model for his students, he is committed to supporting and raising awareness of global environmental issues. The future leaders he teaches today will be the problem solvers of the “green revolution”. (Check out his art at www.griffithsart.ca .)

As of Oct 3rd 2008 Congress has signed into legislation under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, H.R. 1424, a federal tax credit investment program that will encourage small business, farmers and how owners to invest in small wind. Any owners that install a 100 KW unit or less will be eligible to receive a tax credit of up to $ 1,000 per/kw of capacity not to exceed $ 4,000. This tax credit is available from Oct 3/2008 through December 31/2016.

Endurance Wind Power Inc appreciates Congress’ support for Small Wind and the fact they are recognizing the importance that distributed wind power can have in the overall energy contribution towards a cleaner environment. We need to fight global warming and governments financial support at the federal level is extremely important. This legislation is the first federal level incentive since for small wind power since the 80’s.

Endurance Engineer David Laino shares his experience installing a Wind Turbine in Wisconsin…

The David Jolly installation went well, with just one minor hiccup and all in all it was a smooth operation.

David and Deb Jolly were superior hosts. They treated me as an old friend, providing excellent accommodations and food. The property is fantastic, right off the highway exit, very rural, in a beautiful landscape with ponds and fields and a red barn too. David may decide to install another turbine soon.

The work days were long, but Dave and his friend Bob were tireless workers. Tower work is by far the larger assembly project. Efforts to measure the guy wires to reduce adjustments seemed to help. Once the tower was finished, turbine assembly was a snap, less than four hours total. I even managed to get the new isolation washers and bushings on in record time putting them on the studs prior to mounting the turbine. This is my new recommended technique, and we may even wish to ship new turbines with a set of washers and the bushings on the studs already. The Endurance Wind Turbine is now in service.

David Laino
Engineering
Endurance Wind Power Inc

Here’s David Jolly’s reaction after the installation:

Just finished the install. It was great to have David Laino here. I contacted
two local tv stations and they both came to the install and did a story.
The interest from the media and other people is amazing in Wisconsin.

- David Jolly Wisconsin

And here’s the video:

Endurance Wind Power was featured on May 5th on CNN and MSNBC. Almost a year ago, the town of Greenberg Kansas suffered a devastating, record-breaking tornado. Winds of over 200 miles per hour wiped out 60 business and most homes leaving two-thirds of the population homeless. Now, faced with the daunting task of rebuilding their city, the residents have decided to not only rebuild their town, but to renew it. The community is committed to taking a low-impact development approach to recreating their town with the installments of geothermal heating and cooling systems, LCD stop lights and wind turbines making Greensburg “The Greenest City in America”.

Endurance Wind Power is honored to be a part of this innovative and inspiring development. We will be providing a portion of the energy in Greensburg, with the installments of several wind turbines. The John Deere dealership will be partly powered by wind and will also use floor hydronic heat that relies on corn oil and waste fuel. We support Greensburg’s commitment to becoming an environmentally sustainable town and are proud to be providing the community with wind turbines.

Click the image to view the video clip

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LONDON (AFP) – Thousands of new wind turbines could be built across Britain by 2020 as part of multi-billion pound plans to switch to more sustainable energy sources, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.

Setting out the London government’s plans for greater investment in and reliance on renewables, Brown envisaged Britain’s coastal waters being turned “into the equivalent for wind power of what the Gulf of Arabia is for the oil industry”.

This year, Britain would pass Denmark as the country with the world’s highest operating offshore wind capacity of more than 400 megawatts, he told a low carbon economy summit in London.

“By 2020 we will have installed around 14 gigawatts — that is around 3,000 offshore wind turbines, meeting up to 50 percent of our renewable electricity,” he added, stating he wanted Britain to be a leader in “clean energy.”

“The North Sea has now passed its peak of oil and gas supply — but it will now embark on a new transformation into the global centre of the offshore wind industry,” he added.

There will have to be more windfarms onshore too, despite criticism including from those who say they blight the landscape, he said.

A government blueprint announced later set out plans for 7,000 new wind turbines — 4,000 onshore and 3,000 offshore — greater support for “green” energy and allowing renewables into the national power grid.

Brown also renewed his commitment to greater use of wind, wave and nuclear power to move Britain away from its reliance on oil and fossil fuels, amid spiralling prices, in order to secure its future energy supplies and meet carbon reduction targets.

Currently about eight percent of Britain’s total energy supply comes from low carbon sources — two percent from renewables and six percent from nuclear.

Britain has a European Union-imposed target to produce 15 percent of its energy supply from renewables by 2020. Brown said to do so would require 100 billion pounds (126 billion euros, 198 billion dollars) of investment.

The measures would see Britain generate up to a third of its energy supply from renewables to meet the target, Brown added.

As posted on Thu Jun 26
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
080626/world/britain_energy_climate_environment_1