Islands are ideal locations for wind power. Their grids are often driven by diesel generators making power expensive. Kodiak Island is such a case. To control the cost of its electricity, the community installed a few turbines. Its Alaskan Pillar Mountain Wind farm has demonstrated that erecting turbines on remote sites is difficult, but not…
Turbines save $3M in diesel for Alaska’s Kodiak Island
Wind turbines are helping the city of Kodiak — on Kodiak Island off the southern coast of Alaska — reduce its use of diesel fuel, lower its energy costs, and create cleaner energy. The Kodiak Electric Association (KEA), the island’s electric utility, installed three General Electric 1.5-MW turbines in 2009 as a part of the…