"If there's a lesson in the Fire Island wind project in progress, it's that renewable energy won't be a snap.

Right now it looks like CIRI's showcase project just off the western tip of Anchorage is a go, but at one-third of its original design. The Native regional corporation has a tentative deal with Chugach Electric Association to buy the power of 11 turbines, plus maintain a transmission line that CIRI will build.

Turbines will generate enough power to provide electricity to about 6,000 homes -- again, one third of the original estimate of 18,000. CIRI had hoped to do more, but hasn't been able to reach terms with Municipal Light & Power."

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Our view: One third of the wind (The Anchorage Daily News 6/16)

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