Blades arrive for wind turbines

Nine turbine blades arrived at Naff Ridge Monday as the $170 million Palouse Wind farm continues to take shape.

Workers at the construction headquarters on Baird Road south of Rosalia said the nine blades were set to go into nacelles of the project’s three turbines that sit near Highway 195 on the wind farm’s extreme west side. Strong winds, however, prevented them from lifting the blades up to the nacelles.

“Too windy to build a wind farm,” said Cole Shook with First Wind.

The 49-meter blades were trucked to Naff Ridge from Pasco where they arrived via train from the Vestas manufacturing plan...