3 Wind Turbines in Eskimo Village

Milkowski, S. (2009, February 17). Alaska Is a Frontier for Green Power. New York Times , pp. 1-2.

According to a February 2009 New York Times article, in an Eskimo village on the Bering Sea, locals are going green. Alaska has become a testing ground for many new technologies, and the use of wind turbines is one of them. In remote areas like the villages on the Bering Sea, gas and other resources that are used are hard and very expensive to come by, so with the addition of wind turbines, it saves these people money and also improves their environment. With Alaska's windy coasts, it became an ideal place to install and test out wind turbines. However, since the previous testing and success of the turbines, many more have been installed in as many as 9 different villages since 1997 (Milkowski, 2009). Again, with the scarce jobs in the many Native villages in Alaska, the high price of fuel resulted in high electicity prices, which were unbearable (Milkowski, 2009). These turbines provide a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to fuel and electricity.
Turbines are still being tested and used in a few different Alaska locations, and are expanding at a fast rate. I would not be surprised to see wind turbines everywhere in Alaska within the next few years.