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		<title>Partners start summer work on Fire Island wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>21 Jun 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Joint venture partners Cook Inlet Region Inc. and California-based wind energy company enXco Inc. say they could begin preliminary site work this summer in preparation for a wind energy project on Fire Island.
Preliminary engineering and wetlands mapping to prepare for permit applications will be underway this summer, and some work could begin on improvements to roads and construction of a barge landing site, said Jim Jager, a spokesman for CIRI, which owns the land on Fire Island.
Fire Island is in .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind energy project to get jumpstart funds</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A &#36;25 million dip into the Railbelt Energy Fund to help build power lines to Fire Island escaped Gov. Palin&#8217;s budget veto ax last week.
Now those funds will be used to jumpstart a wind energy project on Fire Island.
The Fire Island Wind Project has been talked about for years and could become reality soon, with Southcentral&#8217;s winds blowing through and decreasing residents&#8217; electric bills.
&#8220;The whole goal is to help buy down the cost of power, ultimately,&#8221; said Steve Gilbert, Alaska .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>HEA seeks power: Wind, hydro are possible</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>20 May 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Homer Electric Association is studying whether wind power and small-scale hydroelectric energy generation have a local future.
The utility has joined with an Anchorage-based private renewable energy company, Wind Energy Alaska, to study the feasibility of building and operating wind turbines and low-impact hydroelectric projects on the Kenai Peninsula, according to HEA Spokesman Joe Gallagher.
Partnering with Wind Energy Alaska on the studies are Cook Inlet Region Inc. and enXco, an international energy company specializing in wind power.
In a press release this .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Fairbanks company to test wind energy in Delta Junction</title>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Mar 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Fairbanks-based company is working to prove that a location in Delta Junction is ideal for a wind farm to add electricity into the Alaska Railbelt grid.
Alaska Environmental Power LLC received a grant from the Denali Commission to buy a generator to test a wind generation farm that will be located on a knoll overlooking Delta Junction.
Distributed Energy Systems will provide Alaska Environmental a turbine. The company&#8217;s developer has tested the location, wrote a business plan for the wind generation .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy seekers want wind test at Hatcher Pass</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 Jan 2008</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[WASILLA &#8212; A company that hopes to one day build a wind farm on Fire Island in Anchorage wants a permit to install towers to test the winds at Hatcher Pass.
&#8220;This company is wind-prospecting,&#8221; said Mike Sullivan, a natural resource manager with the state Department of Natural Resources.
Cook Inlet Region Inc. spokesman Jim Jager said the Hatcher Pass project is in the very early stages of development. It&#8217;s one of several wind ideas being working on by CIRI, an Anchorage .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>KEA gets &#36;1M for wind project</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>25 Jul 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kodiak Electric Association’s Pillar Mountain wind generation project is now &#36;1 million closer to a &#36;14 million renewable energy project to offset diesel fuel consumption in Kodiak.
Gov. Sarah Palin recently signed a bill in the 2008 state capital budget to assist KEA in offsetting a portion of the costs for the Pillar Mountain wind project.
Sen. Gary Stevens and Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux helped push the appropriation through as part of a program to lower costs and reduce emissions in Kodiak.
“It will .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Island wind project examined</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>10 May 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably flown over Fire Island dozens of times. It is about three miles southwest of Anchorage, just off the runway at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
Now big changes for the island may be blowing in the wind.
Native corporation Cook Inlet Region Inc. announced today it wants to start a wind farm.
CIRI has formed a partnership with enXco Development Corporation and the companies want to build 20 to 24 wind turbines &#8212; Some as tall as 412 feet &#8212; at .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Chugach balks at wind farm; Cost of project dims luster for this alternative energy</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 11:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>09 May 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The change in leadership at the state&#8217;s biggest electric company late last month has caused the utility to take a more critical look at a wind farm proposed for Anchorage&#8217;s Fire Island.
The new majority on Chugach Electric Association&#8217;s board campaigned on a cost-savings platform. It is raising questions about whether the wind farm makes financial sense. The project is being planned by Cook Inlet Region Inc. for land the Native corporation owns on the windy island.
Under its previous leadership, Chugach .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Bills promote Fire Island wind farm</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>12 Apr 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers proposing to use &#36;24 million to place windmills on Anchorage&#8217;s Fire Island are facing opposition from at least one electric company that says such state money would be better spent for more pressing needs.
Companion bills introduced by Sen. Lesil McGuire, R-Anchorage, and Rep. Harry Crawford, D-Anchorage, would allocate money from the state&#8217;s Railbelt Energy Fund to a consortium of public utility companies, which would build the transmission lines needed to move wind power generated on the island to mainland .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>KEA head says Pillar wind project is safe for birds</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>23 Jan 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Kodiak Electric Association wind generation project on Pillar Mountain, so far does not put birds in harm&#8217;s way.
Both the power company and the Kodiak Audubon Society got together Friday at Kodiak College to discuss progress of KEA&#8217;s renewable energy project that ultimately will result in savings to customers and reduce hydrocarbon diesel fuel use and emissions.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a win, win for all of us,&#8221; Darron Scott, KEA chief executive officer, said today.
KEA and the Audubon Society have been studying the .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>Wind too much for Unalaska power source</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>16 Jan 2007</nww:date>
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					<description><![CDATA[Leaders in a blustery Western Alaska city have stopped studying wind energy as a power source.
The problem? Too much of it.
Unalaska, a city of 4,300, seems tailor-made for the alternative energy. It&#8217;s situated in the Aleutian Islands, called the Birthplace of Winds. Powerful tempests brew there when frigid Siberian air collides with much warmer air above Pacific waters, producing major storms striking the West Coast, meteorologists say.
Overall, Alaska has some of the best wind-power potential in the nation, said Peter .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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		<title>KEA closer to getting wind project off the ground</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<nww:date>06 Oct 2006</nww:date>
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Kodiak Electric Association&#8217;s wind generation project is taking steps toward a naturally driven resource that could move the power company away from the high cost of diesel fuel.
Results of a 10-month study on wind data were analyzed in August and showed KEA is in a favorable position to use wind atop Pillar Mountain.
Darron Scott, KEA chief executive officer, said Wednesday the power company&#8217;s wind rank is a 7 on a scale of 1 to 8.
&#8220;That gives us a good wind .&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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