Renewable energy and sustainable communities: Alaska's wind generator experience†

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Author: R. Steven Konkel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2013
• Subjects: Alaska's wind generators; renewable energy; wind generation; Alaska energy policy; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Pillar; Circumpolar Health; Human health; International Journal of Circumpolar Health; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21520; https://doaj.org/article/d681585886bd4eea859604315950a286

Background . In 1984, the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development (DCED) issued the State's first inventory/economic assessment of wind generators, documenting installed wind generator capacity and the economics of replacing diesel-fuel-generated electricity. Alaska&#x0...