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Pacific Trust Térritories Wind Assessments
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Accordina to Rich Barchet, the recional wind studies for the Pacific
Trust Territories, which are part of the Wind Characterization Element of
the Federal Wind Proaram (DOE), are nearly complete under work subcontracted
to the University of Hawaii. The result will be an island-by-island
atlas summarizing wind resources, and may be divided in the case of
larder islands into a finer level of detail.
Thus, in suaqaesting eneray assessments or planning as part of the
Pacific Trust Territories work, we should not embarrass ourselves by
replicating what has already been done. However, validation of specific
sites, intearation of this eneray resource with needs and some demonstrations
might be reasonable. Infrastructure development through siting courses
might also be helpful.
Wind is one possibility amona several, and an intearation of possible
enerqy development alternatives might reasonably be done once an idea
of the host countries' plans and desires is in hand.
Apparently some rather massive studies of the Pacific Trust Territories
have been done in the past, but never publically released. The Solomon
Report, which apparently runs about 800 pages, is one of these.
In it,
recommendations were made for non-qovernmental entities to take up various
developmental and technical assistance tasks. At the time, this was a
threat to the aovernment administrative bureaucrasy and was never
implemented.
Conditions now appear to be different.
If past history is any indication, political appointees of the losina
party will no doubt vanish, and whatever continuity obtains will come from
staff in civil service positions. Do we have any contacts in the secure
portions of this office to keep trackina developments during the transition
period?
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