Inuvik tests for wind power feasibility on the road away from fossil fuels – Northern Journal
December 14, 2015
As Santa makes his descent from the North Pole this year, he might notice a new red light hanging high in the sky just outside of Inuvik – and it isn’t Rudolph’s nose.
Earlier this month a new 60-metre wind tower was installed near High Point hill, 13 kilometres outside of the community, to measure wind power in the area and to test the feasibility of a wind farm.
The tower is only the latest in a series of similar wind power experiments in the Beaufort Delta, conducted by Yukon engineer J.P. Pinard through the Arctic Research Institute over the last several years. The project is funded by the Government of the Northwest Territories.
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