VIDEO: 15 months construction in four minutes

UNITED STATES: See how developer Xcel Energy installed the 200MW Courtenay wind project in North Dakota, completed in November 2016.

by David Weston 10 January 2017

The 200MW Courtenay project in North Dakota took 15 months to construct

The developer released a time-lapse video of the whole construction process, from preparation of foundations, cable laying and turbine installation. 

The process shows, from rare perspectives, the complicated logistics that go in to installing a wind project.

Xcel Energy's 200MW Courtenay project, acquired in April 2015, comprises 100 Vestas V100-2MW turbines across the 101 square kilometre site. It took 15 months to construct, Xcel said.