HANCOCK -- Starting on Monday, travelers in northern Berkshire County will be sharing the road with giant pieces of 10 wind turbines that will be transported to Brodie Mountain for the construction of the $46 million Berkshire Wind Project.

Transporting the wind turbine parts is expected to take three weeks. Erecting each 1.5 megawatt turbine will take three months. The project is expected to be completed in January.

"The next couple of months are going to be a flurry of activity to get the towers up the mountain and erected before the full brunt of winter sets in," said project spokesman Tyler Fairbank, who is president of EOS Ventures, a green energy development firm in Hancock.

Connection to the grid and the start-up of power generation is anticipated to take place in the spring.

The turbine parts are stored in a field in Stephentown, N.Y., about four miles from the Brodie Mountain construction site. The parts began arriving in Stephentown about three weeks ago.

From Stephentown, the turbine parts will be hauled by truck north on Route 43, then south on Route 7 to Brodie Mountain Road where they will be brought up a hill over an access road to the construction site.

Traffic may be intermittently interrupted as trucks hauling the long, wide loads navigate turns and sharp curves on local roads.

The access road along Brodie Mountain's ridgeline is ready. The concrete foundations have been largely completed.

It was originally believed that the project wouldn't be completed until the fall of 2010, but Fairbank said the turbines became available sooner than expected. The towers will rise 385 feet above the ridge line.

Reed & Reed is the primary contractor for the project, which is owned by the Berkshire Wind Power Cooperative Corp., or BWPCC. The organization is a collaboration of 14 members of the nonprofit Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co., or MMWEC, which has hired EOS Ventures for community relations.

A nonprofit public corporation, the MMWEC includes the communities of Ashburnham, Boylston, Groton, Holden, Hull, Ipswich, Marblehead, Paxton, Peabody, Shrewsbury, Sterling, Templeton, Wakefield and West Boylston.

The MMWEC was the defendant in a lawsuit filed in state Land Court that appealed the granting of a special permit issued by the Lanesborough Zoning Board of Appeals for the portion of the 41Ž2-mile access road to the turbine sites that is located in that town.

According to Fairbank, the matter went to trial. The trial recently ended, but the judge has yet to issue a ruling, he said.

"Given its current status, it would be inappropriate for the cooperative to comment further on the litigation," Fairbank said in a written statement.

Fairbank's father, Brian, is the owner of Jiminy Peak Resort, and father and son were involved in the construction of the single wind turbine that was installed at that popular ski area in 2007.

"We know that when people saw the Jiminy turbine, it's something that they took great interest in," Fairbank said. "Now we have a project going in nearby that is 10 times the size. It seems to me that when people see these turbines, they might lose some of their fangs."

The sight of the turbines will also be likely to "spawn more interest in green energy and more beneficial energy strategies," Fairbank added.

Distributed Generations Systems of Lakewood, Colo., was the original owner of the turbine project and invested more than $6 million during 10 years of development. But the project stalled after a lawsuit was filed by Silverleaf Resorts, which was involved in a nearby development project. That lawsuit has since been settled.

Berkshire Wind Cooperative Group purchased the wind project for $4 million in June 2008.

The cooperative has no Berkshire County members because membership is limited only to municipally-owned utility companies.

While the power generated by the wind turbines will be sold to benefit the cooperative, the actual electricity generated by the turbines will flow to the homes and businesses that are located closest to the power source.

When completed the project is expected to supply electricity to 6,000 homes.