Residential
Wind Turbine Projects
A Partial List for the Kansas City Area

New Windmill in Rural Smithville
The wind energy system we recently installed in rural
Smithville, Missouri, will produce a large percent of the energy
the family uses to power their home. It’s the first Evance
5 kW windmill (wind turbine) in the Kansas City region.

The windmill will produce energy for the household, powering things like their TV and computers. To take advantage of the excess electricity it will produce, it is tied to the electrical grid
of their utility company (Platte-Clay Electric). When more
power is generated than the family can use, they will sell the electricity back to the utility company.

TESS Collaborates with Studio 804
In a modest neighborhood near the Kansas University
Medical Center, a new trend-setting home is generating
almost all of its energy from solar and the wind. The home
was designed and built by Dan Rockhill and his students from
the University of Kansas. Studio 804, the university’s
sustainable architecture program, is known for forward-thinking designs with emphasis on energy efficiency and sustainability.

The home generates most of its own power. The 4.8kW solar panel system produces the majority of the electricity needed,
with 24 photovoltaic panels built into the rain screen that
forms a pressure buffer between the home’s interior and
exterior. An additional 1.2kW of power is generated by a 24′ Mariah Windspire vertical-axis wind turbine located in the backyard. All of the work on the renewable energy systems
was done by the students with guidance from The Energy
Savings Store.

Net-Zero Energy Farm
The Green Dirt Farm, located just north of Kansas City in
Weston, Missouri, is a small community-based farm dedicated
to producing healthy food in a sustainable environment. The entire farm complex was designed to be a net-zero energy farmstead, producing 100 percent of the energy for the
operation using a combination of solar and wind. Chris
DeVolder, the home’s architect, calls it “the greenest house
in the Midwest, possibly in the country.”

The Energy Savings Store was selected to design, engineer
and install the renewable energy systems used on the Green
Dirt Farm in 2005. The electricity used in the home and barn comes from a 2.4kW Skystream wind turbine, perched atop a
70′ tower. Complementing this is a 2.4kW Uni-Solar PV
laminate system on the home’s metal roof. These two energy sources, coupled with the efficiencies designed into the
home, enable the owners to live and operate their farm with
a “net-zero” energy requirement.