BASALT - Imagine spending $13 thousand dollars on a windmill that's supposed to save you money, but in the long run you install it and it only ends up only saving you a few pennies.

"It's just really aggravating because we were led to believe that we were going to lose $30, $40, $50 dollars off our power bill every month. It's not going to happen," says Taylor.

The Taylor's bought their windmill back in October and haven't seen a change in their bill.

"People need to realize, if you could generate 400 kilowatts per month that's only about $35-dollars and you can't pay for $13-thousand dollars on $35-dollars a month," says Burt Taylor.

Especially when his is generating only 24-kilowatts over three months.

"Nine-cents a kilowatt hour, that's not very much money," she adds.

With the federal and state taxes they will receive a few thousand back, but the other half, well hopefully the wind picks up.

"There's no guarantee on wind. I mean that comes from God. So we hope we have enough wind, but the wind is what the wind is," says Lorin Croft, owner of LC Insulations.

But the wind was blowing.

"Spinning like crazy, shaking that pole. Just a spinin' and a whippin'. We had a lot of wind in December," says

Only producing 24-kilowatts when it should be in the hundreds.

"Well we've got to just look and see where we're at with it. We are looking into it," says Croft.

"If it knocks three or four dollars off our power bill, you know how long it's going to take for us to pay for that," says

Residential windmills can save you a lot of money, but they could also cost you a whole lot more. Make sure you know what you're getting into before you go and install it.