Rowland Morgan Says: "You Too, May Be Able To Sell Power To The Electric Company!"

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Then too, there's a chance that Narragansett may decide not to pay the Morgans at all for their surplus electricity. Rowland Morgan is prepared for such a possibility. "if they don't want to pay for the power," he maintains, "we'll put a heating coil in a tank of water—and set the tank inside the house to help with space heating. That ought to save us some money on fuel oil ... maybe more money than we'd got from the electric company!"

INVESTING IN THE FUTURE

It's true that Rowland Morgan's wind power system wasn't exactly inexpensive to install: The entire setup—batteries and all—cost about $8,000 (in 1974 dollars) ... a sizable sum even for a relatively well-to-do homeowner.

Rowland, however, takes a "why should we wait?" attitude. "Somebody's got to make a mission of this," he explains. "The electric companies should be looking into wind power themselves, the way that Narragansett has taken an interest in solar energy." (The Narragansett Electric Company has—to date—Installed 100 solar water heating units in its customers' homes, at a nominal cost of $200. They're now studying the units' performance.) "Most of 'em are standing back, though ... which means that people like myself have to get things rolling."

So while other folks burn up what's left of the nation's petroleum and coal reserves, Rowland Morgan and his neighbors (thanks to the Gemini Inverter) enjoy electrical energy derived from a pollution-free, renewable source. And while other people's electric bills grow frighteningly larger as time goes by, the Morgan family can look forward to monthly power bills that go down (or—at the very worst—stay small).

Rowland Morgan sums it all up this way: "if our wind power system helps the planet, great! If It also helps our pocketbook ... so much the better!"

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