HANCOCK -- Trucks carrying wind turbine components bound for the ridge line of Brodie Mountain will join traffic along Routes 43, 7 and Brodie Mountain Road beginning next week.

Acting as spokeswoman for the Berkshire Wind Project, Betsy Strickler of EOS Ventures -- a renewable energy company, said Thursday project equipment will begin moving on Monday from Stephentown, N.Y.

"This phase will last three weeks," she said.

The equipment will travel from the intersection of Routes 22 and 43 in Stephentown -- where it's being stored -- east on Route 43 to Williamstown. It will be brought south on Route 7 to Lanesborough, and then onto Brodie Mountain Road ending at the construction site, Strickler said.

"Hopefully it will not be much in the way of traffic disruption, but there may be some," she said.

Equipment being transported includes sections of towers, nacelles -- which go on top of a wind turbine tower and house the gear box and other mechanical components -- and hubs -- which hold a wind turbine's three blades.

Strickler said the Berkshire Wind Project has worked with the state on the route, and the trucks carrying the equipment will be escorted.

The equipment will eventually be assembled into 10 wind turbines generating a total of 15 megawatts of electricity, which will provide power to about 6,000 homes.

Fourteen cities and towns in Massachusetts, which are part of the Berkshire Wind Power Cooperative Corp., will benefit from the addition of the wind turbines to the power grid. No Berkshire County communities are part of the corporation.

"Construction began in June and is expected to go through the end of January 2010," Strickler said.

She said the transportation of the wind turbine components will be the next phase of the project.

"Right now we're working on mostly doing the ground work and reinforcing the roadway to get to the various sites," she said.

She said the geotechnical surveys have been completed, and most of the foundations for the wind turbines have been poured.

Once the equipment is on site, the next phase is to get the wind turbine towers built, she said.

Connection of the wind turbines to the power grid is scheduled for the spring of 2010, she said.

Reed & Reed of Woolwich, Maine was contracted earlier this year to design and build the 10 wind turbines at a cost of $10 million to $11 million.

The Berkshire Wind Project, which has been ongoing since at least 2003, is estimated to cost $46 million in total.