I certainly can. Thank you for the question.
Just to put things in perspective, I've been working with Northwest Territories Power Corp., Nunavut Power Corp., and now Qulliq Energy for 17 years. I came out of hydro before that, spending some six or seven years with hydro. During my tenure with those three companies—they're all in the same location—we attempted to install wind on several occasions, largely through funding we received outside of the core funding for the corporation.
We installed windmills in Kugluktuk. In order to install them, we had to ship up a crane to do the install, because you don't have the resources available in the community to do that. That increases the capital cost for the infrastructure you're putting in. We installed them in an area with a good wind regime. The community didn't like how close they were to a cemetery, so we moved them again. They preferred them in a valley. We put them in a valley where we didn't get a lot of wind. The end result of that over the life of the operations was that we deferred about $35,000 worth of fuel costs.
We've installed them in two or three other locations. We've been successful in keeping a windmill operating throughout its life in only one location. It's infrastructure life was about 10 years in the environment we were in, keeping in mind that it's an older technology. During that timeframe, the displacement of fuel costs didn't cover the capital outlay cost, let alone the operating cost.