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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – The Public Service Commission has given the final okay for a wind farm proposed for Stutsman County.

The Courtenay Wind Farm will be 200 megawatts. The power will be sold to Xcel Energy.

The company had originally proposed up to 127 turbine locations – and to use one-point-five megawatt turbines. However, the wind farm will use two megawatt turbines, lowering the number of locations to 100.

Public Service Commission chairman Brian Kalk says there was a concern because some of the turbines would have been close to a crop spraying business – and a private airstrip.

Kalk says the company dropped nine potential sites near that private airstrip. He says the company hopes to start construction on the 350-million dollar wind farm this fall and have it completed by the fall of 2015.