Wind Turbine Cash Flow

Richard Fieldhouse
(11 July 2013)

After about 18 months of steady running from our 6kW wind turbine, we are now beginning to see a long enough timeline to get a firmer idea of the cash flows, Return on Investment, Payback and all those other good things... So here's a graphical presentation.

Cash Flows (£thousands)
				November 2011		August 2012				February 2013				Feb 2014
Total	Item
0			Planning Application
			Abortive Grant Application
	4	.5	DNO G59 Charge
			Groundworks and Concrete
			Wiring (grid-tie inverter to domestic distribution box)
				Purchase and Install Turbine						Received (£800) less Maintenance (£600)
	20
							Received (£700)
						Received (£800)
32.5			Interest		Payment received (£1.6k)
			^
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As we invested, each cost moved us down into the red, shown by the downward arrows on the left hand side of the graphic. Now we are earning and each payment moves us back up towards break even, shown by the green arrows

There's more detail to fit onto this yet, with the option to drill down for a growing selection of the items.

But, for those of you looking for a sniff of the bottom line, the Return on Investment here is around 10.3%, break even is after almost exactly ten years - October 2021

Payment Received - FIT Generation plus Deemed Export plus Power Used On Site

For the Winter quarter, payment was received as follows:

( © Richard Fieldhouse, 2013)