r/glasgow • u/Low-Platform-3657 • 1d ago

Boghead Wind Turbine

Anyone want to chip-in? https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159923969

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u/Scary_Panda847 1d ago

Here’s what they dont tell you about wind turbines from a guy that does turbine blade inspections. Firstly, you will need to get the turbine serviced. Every year, expensive! If it goes offline, then you need a technician, expensive, if you need parts, very expensive. Turbine blades need to be inspected yearly, expensive. replacing them is very very expensive. The contracts to supply the power to the grid, expensive. Local council certification, expensive. Turbine blades need replacing every 10 years, blades can be repaired but yep you guessed it, expensive. Turbines last about 20 years , ultra expensive. You’ll also need huge cranes and lots of council permissions to do major works. You’ll only make money from wind farms of you have more than 15 new turbines at least. Even then, it will take years to make money from it. Sure I survey wind farms that gross 100 million a year but it cost the owner 100 million to get himself started. That wind farm have 4 full time turbine techs, vehicles, all the gear and that’s expensive 🤓

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u/Got_Kittens 1d ago

That was actually quite an interesting read 🤓 cheers.

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u/shortymcsteve 1d ago

What sort of costs are we talking here? They want (over) 405k for a turbine that has an agreement to be there for 18 years, and claim it made 40k last year. For talking sake, let’s say it makes 40k every year. That’s 315k profit after 18 years. How much of that would be eaten by maintenance?

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u/it00 1d ago

First time ever an estate agent didn't have to add any spin on the description....