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Solacity is about clean, renewable energy in general, and wind power in particular. Want to turn your home into a greenhouse-gas-free electricity producing green power plant? Or do you want to attract more customers to your business and make it a bit greener at the same time? Drop us a line, or give us a call!

First we have to straighten something out. Everyone we speak to insists on mauling our company name, so here it is: "Solacity" is pronounced just like "capacity" or "voracity". If you prefer it in phonetic spelling, it is / sō-`lǝ-sǔ-tee / (Depending on your computer platform, some of those characters may not show up, but you get the idea).

Eoltec Scirocco

Wind is free, catching it has been the expensive part. The Scirocco wind turbine makes this more affordable!

Solacity is the exclusive Canadian distributor of the Eoltec's Scirocco wind turbine. This turbine is just the right size to produce meaningful amounts of energy for a household, business, or farm, even for those not lucky enough to live in a high-wind area. Of course, if you have lots of wind this turbine will make lots of energy! The Scirocco stands out from the crowd in a number of ways:

• Very efficient, from low to high winds. Due to variable cord, variable pitch blades.
• Smaller, quieter and much cheaper than a Bergey Excel, yet produces almost as much.
• Built to last! Thanks to solid European engineering.
• Very quiet! Thanks to dynamic pitch control, limiting rotational speed to 245 rpm at all times.
• No furling at any wind speed means less noise.
• Produces 6 kW from 40 km/h through 210 km/h, no furling means no loss of power, no diversion load needed either.
• 5 year warranty.

These points are not merely advertising sound-bites as is so often the case in this industry! Be sure to check out our Scirocco page for a more thorough discussion of this little list, and more.

Wind Check

To find out how many kilo-Watt-hours a Scirocco can produce for you, the first step is to look up the annual average wind speed at your location. Use the Canadian Wind Atlas or the Ontario Wind Atlas to get a good idea. Keep in mind that local topography can make a difference; If you can place the turbine on top of a hill the winds will be more than the atlas indicates, similarly, if you live in a valley the winds will likely be a bit less.

Once you know the average wind speed for your site, the table below will give an idea of how much a Scirocco wind turbine will produce per month, what the cost per kWh is for business/farm or home use, and what the profit or loss will be after 20 years of net metering. The average wind speed in the table is measured at 10 meters, if you have the wind speed at a different height you can still calculate electricity production by using the Eoltec spreadsheet. The numbers are based on a realistic full installation price of $48,445, using a 106' tower with grid-tied inverter, setting aside money each year for maintenance, as explained in detail in the wind basics section.

The Return-On-Investment is based on avoided cost vs. investment. For example, avoiding an electricity bill of $1,707 annually, on an investment of $31,489 (for business/farm), results in an ROI of 5.4%. That is more than one gets on the average savings account, with a guaranteed rate-of-return that is only going to go up as electricity prices go up. Not a bad investment!

As shown above, a moderately windy site with at least 5 m/s can make the Scirocco immediately profitable for business use at current electricity prices. Such sites can be found in many places in Canada. For home use the situation is different, it would take a very windy place to break even. Keep in mind that the Return-On-Investment is very much based on the current effective electricity price of 14.3 cents per kWh (as of this writing in September 2006). When electricity prices go up, the ROI percentage will too!