Cool to see windfarm discussion here. I live in the PNW, love where I live but I have a ton of trees so my solar eligible square footage is pretty modest when juxtaposed to my goals of getting off grid. I recently found out that home turbines are a thing, and I'm hoping with a combination of the two I can achieve my goals. That said, we have no data for this sort of thing, so I'm in the domain of a blind investment. I'd love to hear feedback if folks have experience.
Isn't the problem with a home turbine the low capacity? E.g. a typical backyard turbine might be good for 1000-1500W at peak output, and it's still pretty big and wants to be mounted on a 20 foot pole. The good ones are kind of expensive, too.
I'd wonder if you have a lot of trees if you'd ever get much output from a turbine anyway. At a certain point, if you want legitimate solar or wind power, you probably end up finding a spot to clear some tree cover. Grab a pallet of dirt cheap used panels from SanTan and throw 'em out on the ground.
Personally I probably wouldn't even think about wind unless I lived out in eastern Oregon or Washington on the plains, with big enough property that I could get a halfway decent size turbine and mount it far enough from the house so I couldn't hear it.
