“There is no significant infrastructure on the project side, so we’ve been building the main access haul road and arterial roads to the various sites to open up construction,” said Jacobson.

Along with building roads and turbine pads, Jacobson stated an on-site gravel quarry has been built to fill their needs without long travel times. Jacobson said construction on the wind farm runs year-round, rather than the summer-dominated schedule of most major construction projects.

Jacobson further stated construction has run continuously since the first ground was broken in September 2016. Jacobson clarified their work on Bureau of Land Management land does have required stopping points during the spring, but as the project runs through the checkerboard pattern, work is always underway somewhere in the project’s 2,000-acre sprawl.

To man construction, the project currently employs 100 year-round workers.