{"id":55,"date":"2026-07-18T07:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/2026\/07\/18\/a-year-of-wind-data-and-the-honest-verdict\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:18:14","slug":"a-year-of-wind-data-and-the-honest-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/2026\/07\/18\/a-year-of-wind-data-and-the-honest-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"A year of wind data, and the honest verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Small wind is the part of our business we talk people out of most often, and the only way to do that honestly is to measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We put loggers on four ridge sites for a full twelve months. Site one averaged 5.9 m\/s at hub height and was an easy yes. Site two came in at 5.4 and worked because the owner had a big overnight pump load that solar could never cover. Site three, at 4.8, was marginal enough that we quoted it with the payback stretched past twelve years and left the decision to the owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Site four averaged 3.9 m\/s. Beautiful view, felt breezy every time we visited, and would never have paid for itself. We told the owner to spend the money on another twelve panels, and they did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We logged four ridge sites for twelve months. Two justified a turbine, one was marginal, one we told the owner to forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwp-solar-company-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}