Dear Small Wind Enthusiast:

This past Monday (April 14th, 2008) I took most of my essays that explained anything about the Jacobs wind turbine off the server.  The plant manager of Wind Turbine Industries has notified me that I cannot sell the Jacobs wind turbines as a do it yourself kit any more.  He wants me involved not just in selling the wind machine; but also, installing and servicing the wind turbine.  He says that I am upsetting other wind turbine dealers by offering these wind machines below the retail price.  By having all his wind turbine dealers performing the same tasks, he can eliminate bickering.   The other aspect is: he wants a wind turbine dealer to accept responsibility of the installation so that his warranty of the parts that he provides is covered explicitly.

For many people like you, my web site has provided a great deal of information--information that has helped you learn the answers to all your questions.  It has also helped the many wind turbine dealers became knoweledgeable of this wind machine because of what I wrote.

I haven't been entirely successful selling wind turbines because: 1. They are quite expensive now--for that matter, the prices of these wind machines are 2 1/2 time the cost of which they were in 1996--2002.  Since then, the plant manager has raised the price of the wind machines once or twice a calender year.   2. The inverter for interconnection is not available from the manufacturer.  3. A customer is going to get a state grant (like here in Wisconsin) to help cover the cost of a contractor installing the wind machine as turn-key project.  4. People like to buy wind machines from a local dealer, even though they learned everything about the wind machine from me.  5.  Zoning constraints prohibit the wind turbine from their site.  6. Installation costs is an unavoidable expense that wasn't figured in.  7. Some states don't have a retail buy back, or the retail buy back is not for wind turbines, or the retail buy back is not up to the 20 kw range.  8. Some people want to have the wind turbine installed by someone else, who would also service it.  9.  One customer bought the wind machine from the manufacturer without any wind turbine dealer involved. 

The plant manager prevented me from selling a wind machine, in the middle of April 2008, to a customer in central Illinois--even though the customer was agreeable to my sale contract without my participation in installing or servicing the wind machine.  This customer, had learned everything what he wanted to know and was going to put it up himself and take care of it himself--just like all my other customers have done over the past twelve years.  This customer was thrilled that he was involved in his own wind turbine project and get $7,400 off the retail rate to do it. 

And, the plant manager prevented me from selling a wind machine to a customer in Palermo, Sicily, because there is an exclusive wind turbine dealership in Italy.   

So, I have no option but to remove my essays for your interests in the Jacos wind turbine. 

I should sell my web site.

Douglas Johnson