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Local rancher looks to wind as a way
to live responsibly with the environment

Global warming is a phrase that has been overused so much in our everyday vernacular that people have become desensitized to its meaning. With China putting a coal burning utility plant online at a rate of nearly one per week, it would be unfathomable to think that its byproduct is not harming our environment. Chief Standing Bear (1834?-1908), a Ponca Native American Chief from the American mid-west, is known for saying “[Man’s] lack of respect for growing, living things soon leads to lack of respect for humans, too”.

Hondo resident Kevin Christiansen has taken a stand to what he sees as the right thing to do, living responsibly with as little pollution as possible, in order to leave a clean environment for his children and grandchildren.

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New-fangled windmills could yield owners old-fashioned savings

It is 45-feet high and came to Frank Morgan in three different pieces that were then assembled by RePower Energy of Hondo. The device is a wind turbine Morgan purchased through RePower Energy and which he said should save him $200 a month in utility costs.

Morgan resides on an up-and-coming hunting ranch about 10 miles north of Sabinal on Highway 187. Climbing up a slight hill to get to his house, Texas Hill Country spread out behind it, visitors encounter the unassuming 45-foot pole with the propeller-like contraption at the top.

"The noise, that was one of my concerns," Morgan said Tuesday afternoon from where he stood at the base of his wind turbine.

Before Morgan decided to purchase the wind turbine he talked it over with friends, who warned him that the noise could be substantial. Morgan said that the industrial wind turbines located in West Texas and other areas of the state can be noisier, but his wind turbine is much smaller.

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Entrepreneur forms distributorship to sell wind turbines to rural households

Hondo Realtor Kevin Christiansen wanted to do the right thing by the environment, perhaps lower his home electric bill a bit and avoid what he sees are big utility bill increases down the road – so he bought a 45-foot-tall wind turbine.

Or rather he tried to. The more friends he told about his plans, the more they wanted one as well. So he ended up buying a wind turbine dealership instead.

Now, nine months later, he’s sold 10 turbines designed for private residences, and believes he has found a market niche that is set for the future.

“I’ve watched electricity rates go up and up – they’ve never gone down – and when they started to talk about all of this cap and trade, I started to look for alternative electric sources for my home,” Christiansen says.

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