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Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

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Regarding wind power, I have no personal experience. But I have hired the Swedish Metrologic Institute to<br />

calculate what it would give to set one a pla once that appeared to be very windswept (it was next to the<br />

hydroelectric power plant located in the mountains) and otherwise very suitable for me to put up a wind<br />

turbine on because the ground was my own, it should not be a problem with the disturbing noise as it would<br />

be relatively desolate and beside the even more disturbing rapids, I had a road to the place and my<br />

transformer station with spare capacity was located just next door. Unfortunately it turned out that it would<br />

not be profitable even with the grants and even though I had the chance to buy a cheap second-hand wind<br />

turbine.<br />

Shares in wind turbine is probably not an investment that has so much potential to increase in value or<br />

generate a profit. However, there may be a way to reduce the private cost for electricity 3 in combination with<br />

that it might be fun to own a part of a wind turbine.<br />

3.<br />

A share may cost, say, 25 000 SEK and the owner of the share has the right to purchase 4 000 kWh/year for, say<br />

0.25 SEK/kWh (excluding taxes). Thus the investor might earn 0.10 SEK/kWh, which is 400 per year and share. A<br />

return of 10%, therefore, with the guessed electricity prices. Other investments, such as bonds, does have a lower<br />

interest rate but instead the investor receives the money back when the term expires. While when investing in wind<br />

power, however, the investment is worth zero on the day the wind turbine is scrapped. There are also a few<br />

additional drawbacks:<br />

1. There is tax on the price reduction.<br />

2. Anyone buying shares in wind power compounds has to buy all their electricity from the association or company.<br />

Since you are only allowed to have one electricity supplier.<br />

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