Wind farm on Web.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: Inside Alaska Business

Unalakleet Valley Electric Cooperative completed installation of a 600-kilowatt, six-turbine, wind-power unit and launched a Web cam for Alaskans to monitor its energy production. Visit the site at: http:// northernpower.kiosk-view.com/unalakleet. The wind farm began operating in November 2009, and the Web portal was added this year.

The wind-power turbine is one of the first projects implemented through funding from the State's Renewable Energy Fund, a $250 million grant program designed to support renewable energy projects that help reduce the cost of energy for Alaskans. The Alaska Energy Authority oversees the Alaska's Renewable Energy Fund Program, which provided a $4 million grant for the Unalakleet project.

The Norton Sound Economic Development Corp., the Commercial Development Quota organization serving Alaska's Bering Strait region, and the Unalakleet Native Corp. also helped finance the project.

UVEC's wind farm was developed and built by Anchorage-based STG Inc. last summer. The project is expected to deliver 1.5 million kilowatt-hours of wind-generated...