Photos of Bergey Wind Turbines
One of the most well known and reliable brands of small wind turbines in North America. The Bergey family of Mike and his father Carl started the company in the 1970s.
Carl Bergey was an aircraft designer. Mike studied engineering at the University of Oklahoma.
Interestingly, before Mike joined his father manufacturing a small upwind, direct-drive wind turbine, he experimented with a giromill, a form of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine.
Their first turbine used solid-aluminum blades. These were shortly replaced with the pultruded blades they have made famous.
For many years they offered an 850 watt model, a 1.5 kW version, and their 7-meter Excel. The larger turbine was introduced in the late 1970s.
Bergey Excel 7 meter diameter household size wind turbine at the home of David and Jan Blittersdorf late 1990s.
Bergey wind turbines furling in high winds at the USDA’s Bushland experiment station late 1970s or early 1980s.
Bergey wind turbines furling in high winds at the USDA’s Bushland experiment station late 1970s or early 1980s.
Bergey Excel at the City of Portland's composting site. The tower includes aviation navigation lights because the site is near the airport (PDX).
Bergey 1500 in a pipeline cathodic protection application on the Argentinean steppes in 1998.
Bergey 850 small wind turbine furling in high winds at the Wulf Test Field in the Tehachapi Pass in the late 1990s or early 2000s.
