Alaska Wind Project: First Shipment of Turbine Parts Reach Fire Island
By Jordana Anderson Channel 2 News KTUU

2:15 p.m. CDT, July 3, 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—
The first shipment of turbine parts has reached Fire Island.

Cook Inlet Regional, Incorporated officials say the turbine parts for the wind project were shipped early Monday morning and off-loaded in the afternoon.

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For the past few weeks, turbine parts have arrived at the Port of Anchorage.

The $65-million project should wrap up in September.

Road construction and most of the on-shore work have already been completed.

CIRI officials say the project is expected to generate more than 48-thousand mega-watt hours in a year, which is the equivalent to powering a 100-watt lightbulb for about 485-million hours.