Inside America's Largest Renewable Energy Project

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Welcome to SunZia, a remarkable undertaking to build 900+ new wind turbines in the New Mexico desert to produce 3,500 megawatts of energy for America's Southwest.
Blattner, a company with nearly a century of history, is building the project. However, before they can assemble each tower and turbine, each needs a solid foundation.
Blattner crews are excavating holes for each, tying enormous rebar structures, and pouring over 500,000 cubic yards of concrete for all the foundations combined.
Beyond building the foundations, they must connect each with power and fiber cables, which they call collections.
If you want to explore a career at Blattner, you can visit the link below:
www.blattnercompany.com/careers
And if you want to learn more about SunZia and Pattern, you can visit their site here:
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@SOSKINGOFWAR 3 дня назад

Been watching your videos for years and can't believe that the company I work for is getting a shout out and some spotlight from ya'll. I'm on the solar side but hell yeah. Get it Blattner

@mitchelldake7203 5 дней назад

I ran a Tb105 for many years! I can tell you one thing, a TB105 will certainly do a 100 yards an hour but 150 is pushing it. A pump on the other hand, a bigger one, will do 170 or 180 an hour full tilt. 50 yards an hour out of a pump is hilariously under estimated 😅

@andrewsmith1655 5 дней назад

120 Yards per hours is pretty easy to get out of a pump, especially for a foundation like that where most of the placement is just dumping concrete with minimal finishing. A pump might even be able to do 150 Yards per hour if you can keep trucks backed up and feeding it.

@mitchelldake7203 5 дней назад

@@andrewsmith1655 It's going to depend on the pump and what pump kit it's running. But the modern pumps with high output kits running oil to the rod side can usually push 170 an hour if it's a decent slump. Something like this is probably not any wetter than a 4" slump, so running a 5" hose you're probably going to push around 140 an hour.

@carversquiers1034 5 дней назад

love the mining and dirt videos but this was a really cool video! always love learning about other jobsites and how crews are building the worlds future

@jonhdoe0 5 дней назад

Love this video. I've always believed we need multiple sources of power in a future proof electricity grid. If your energy is green you can smelt steel, run your server farm, or your factories, and no-one can complain!

@avman2cl 3 дня назад

Steel melting Arc furnaces. Use about 150 MW. The larger wind turbines put out 18 megawatts each. So you would need 10+ turbines just to run the plant. That's a lot of power. Look up how much power the new Amazon data center requires. More than the local nuclear power plant total output! What I'm getting at is the resources required are vast and expensive and less reliable than what we currently have. Politicians are rushing all of this just like evs and they turned out to be quite the disaster

@MM-sf3rl День назад

In Anchorage, Alaska, a 250MW gas power plant took 3 years to construct. SunZia will take 3 years for 3,500MW and provide transmission lines. I think this point to why 90%+ of new energy in the US is solar or wind..

@orbitingancient 11 часов назад

Look out for the newly funded nuclear sector :D mostly referring to small scale reactors and micro reactors.. but great progress on passively safe reactors- and eventually plants! :)

@robbyrigoni2940 4 дня назад

Never knew Blattner was a Quanta Company. In Wyoming they put up a large transmission line and I know they were in New Mexico too. Quanta is a great company.

@tylerkempf2902 5 дней назад

Hopefully you can get a video of them lifting and placing the columns

@LynzieLoo 2 дня назад

There was two years of Geotechnical drilling/investigation by RRC Power & Energy (Austin, TX) leading to the design of those turbine foundations. There are many karsts around the project that have to be mitigated. Void assessment and grouting is an integral part before the foundation can be poured.

@bobcaleyrealtor 5 дней назад

Always so good!

@RRCCONSTRUCTIONMININGREC-tl8yf 5 дней назад

nice vide thanks for posting.😊😊👍👍

@blueman5924 5 дней назад

When you go back for the assembly, please make it at least 25 minutes. We will salute you sir. 👍🤙

@79noel 5 дней назад

Thanks for showing us this. That's a new spind on dirt also. Maybe next time you can show about solar farms.

@davidanalyst671 5 дней назад

wow. you really did try to get all the aspects of this project. I could just watch that trenching machine for dayzzzzzz

@LynzieLoo 2 дня назад

HAH! Not even close. There are thousands of working pieces that were not even touched on. Before the project can even start there’s hundreds of surveys done for: Geotechnical (the people who actually design the foundations) Avian (bird studies), Aviation, Environmental & Hydrological, Archaeological & Cultural, Civil (the terrain isn’t easy - most the project is in the mesas), and so much more.

@pdxflyguy 5 дней назад

Aaron, how deep down do they build the foundations?

@anonym3017 5 дней назад

the steel structure, once filled in with concrete, visible at 1:19 is the entire foundation. there are no piles required.

@MrArtist7777 День назад

Great project! Love to see more solar and wind!,

@tedcentofanti4812 4 дня назад

Cool stuff I thought when you were in Australia not long ago, you would have checked out the wind farms getting built everywhere

@billywilson241 5 дней назад

Please do some crawler crane stuff!

@lastnamefirstname520 5 дней назад

Definitely need to go back, to show the assembly of the turbines

@locsadventures1121 3 дня назад

Very cool

@richmiller9844 3 дня назад

Looks Great in a desert. Not in my Local Forest!

@slicer940 5 дней назад

The way he says Turbine

@maxandersen6532 3 дня назад

At least he didn't call it a wind mill, lol

@rweissrock 5 дней назад

Hello Aaron there is an error at the beginning of the video, You have for example Grand Coulee who is around 6.5GW of capacity who is an hydroelectric facility

@kaedanbritton8233 3 дня назад

Been working this job for 9 months producing all the aggregate, pretty neat town outta come see how we are making sand

@chrisgriffiths2533 10 часов назад

No one is Building Large VAWTs Yet. I Wonder Why ?. Good Video.

@powerwagon3731 5 дней назад

My local concrete company has a belt installed on the 10 yd. truck, much smaller though.

@Machines.In.Action 3 дня назад

Renewable energy is the future, and projects like SunZia are leading the way. The scale and ambition of this project are truly impressive.🔋

@jascollinscork 5 дней назад

Need to see them Turbines being lifted in 👍🏻 I'm surprised there no protection stone being laid over cables.... is it going to be under a high road way 🤷🏻‍♂️ AND was there even warning tape laid closer to surface 🤔🤔🤔

@Rob-dunk 2 дня назад

Don’t let the kiwi’s near those threaded bolts when it’s time for maintenance 😂😂 (NZJoke)

@argrax. 5 дней назад

How many steel piles (and how deep) below the concrete pedestal?

@anonym3017 5 дней назад

0 steel piles. the block of concrete, the steel skeleton of which can be seen at 1:19, is all that's needed.

@Harry_Gersack 5 дней назад

Ha! Made it here before any idiots were complaining about green energy 💪

@tristenklein5940 5 дней назад

Only Serfs believe everything these radical politicians say and push even when it is destroying every aspect of their lives and livelihoods!👆👆

@Pea-bj2qv 5 дней назад

CRY ME A RIVER

@tristenklein5940 5 дней назад

You mean individuals with common sense and believes in liberty and freedom not political tyranny and serfdom! Do your research on CC and GE.

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

@@tristenklein5940⬅️ you're a snowflake bitching about capitalism. This plant isn't being built to appease green activists, it's being built because it outcompetes fossil fuels in this location. Go ahead and cry conspiracy. I'm sure the plant designers will spare you a thought while they're making money hand over fist.

@Mr80687 5 дней назад

Buncha of tree hugers

@xtctrader1467 5 дней назад

How far do they have to truck all the aggregate, concrete and sand to the batch plant.

@davebrown4841 5 дней назад

This is " GREEN ENERGY " but it takes lots of coal and oil to produce. 😂😂😂😂😂

@anonym3017 5 дней назад

@@davebrown4841 yeah so much coal and oil that running a 3.5GW coal plant at full output for 100 hours puts out more CO2 than building all 900 turbines in the park. if you go with a modern combined cycle gas turbine plant that outputs 3.5GW it takes 200 hours. and those numbers don't consider the CO2 released when building the coal/gas plant

@markboyanton9880 5 дней назад

What area of New Mexico is this?

@LynzieLoo 2 дня назад

Corona

@sanjayladhvaxyz1313 5 дней назад

Wow nice 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 im sanjay

@nicholasburger6061 5 дней назад

4:36

@diggingitallpodcast3418 5 дней назад

Disappointed they didn’t take you to the civil side of things. The roads and pad building on this project is insane. The concrete and collection lines are kinda 🥱

@stevesmith-sb2df 2 дня назад

Can they reuse the pedestal? Seems like a lot more concrete/ twh than a nuclear plant.

@lepidoptera9337 День назад

That's because you have never seen the basement of a nuclear power plant. ;-)

@thatwazfunaz 5 дней назад

wonder how long it would take each turbine to offset the emissions from it being built

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

It varies from turbine to turbine, but not very long.

@KabelWlan 3 дня назад

@@Dasycottus Depending on the location, 5-12 months

@jamesfischer5389 5 дней назад

You Lost Me At....... "They Put Bolts On The Ends Of These Threaded Reinforcing Steel Bars!"

@RecklessSavage 5 дней назад

i see youve entered west texas , get out now, i was almost certain then i seen the buildings from midland "tall City" and i knew then

@StEaLtHMel0n 5 дней назад

"wind turban"

@dannyb2048 5 дней назад

is it just me or is he saying Tur"bine" Tur"ban"

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

Either pronunciation is correct. One is more common with British English

@bazoo513 4 дня назад

0:22 - That's a lot - about twice the installed capacity of Hoover Dam generators. Only three nuclear power plants in the US have larger installed max power (but far greater production, of course - they work by night, too.)

@samuriutta6467 2 дня назад

Yeah that's green power with the concrete, re-bars, tons of concrete trucks and all that. Green as possible.

@lepidoptera9337 День назад

1 cubic yard of concrete requires 3GJ of energy. Let's say they need 400 cubic yards, so that's 1200GJ. A wind turbine generates, on average, 1MW. This returns the energy cost of the concrete in 1200GJ/1MW=1.2e6s, which is approx. 14 days. All in wind turbines in this range are said to be energy neutral in five months. Not a problem, but then... there are always chickens who can't do math. ;-)

@AnthonyTarabochia 2 дня назад

how far would this project proceed without diesel?

@lepidoptera9337 День назад

One could easily build it with electric trucks. They are just not available, yet. ;-)

@nedaustin239 5 дней назад

What’s the bird kill per hour rate?

@WindyJAMiller 5 дней назад

There's always one 😅

@brentr8649 5 дней назад

Hopefully 2-3 an hour! Be fun to see then get killed mid flight 😂

@BroadcastBuddy 2 дня назад

Turbines do kill many birds of prey. I've seen it happen because I've serviced wind turbines. Nuclear energy is the way to go

@jimrichards3916 3 дня назад

And in 15-20 years at the end of their life ( or sooner ) they take the windmills down, but leave the rebar and concrete in the ground. You're trying to tell me this all makes sense FFS. £$?!&

@manup1931 3 дня назад

You know it's possible to reuse the foundation for a new turbine? It's called repowering.

@MCW1955 5 дней назад

The wind does push on them non stop, until the wind stops. We could have had 20 to 30 new nuclear power plants, which are very safe.

@daveklein2826 3 дня назад

You just proved you are an uneducated moron

@AndyFromBeaverton 2 дня назад

They need to paint the blades so they will deter bird strikes. Each turbine foundation takes 483 tons of steel and 580 cu yards of concrete.

@DemPilafian День назад

Also, get rid of your pet cat.

@tinusg 5 дней назад

Meanwhile, China is building a 400 GW project. Over 100x the size of this. The US can do way better.

@travisporter0801 5 дней назад

have you found any details on this project. I just saw an announcement only.

@dirtltd6151 5 дней назад

If US paid workers with rice it could put up communist numbers as well

@ollieturner5256 5 дней назад

You can say anything actually having that’s completely different

@1DrunkSocialite 5 дней назад

Yeah, but politics and politicians get in the way. 😢

@diggingitallpodcast3418 5 дней назад

This is only 1/4 of the project 😂

@Bernie5172 4 дня назад

so 900 wind mills will give 3 million folks power 24/7. SO how many windmills are need for 360 million Americans to have power.?

@philwelling7476 День назад

Yup. And just think , all the pollution they create doing all this bs. Lots of info out there , check it . More harm then good . Period.

@infinitelyexplosive4131 4 часа назад

Right, let’s just go back to burning good clean coal!

@Pushy8366 3 дня назад

Really clean energy not every time one of those motors let’s go there’s 6000 gallons of oil all over the ground not counting how many birds they kill a year. But hey ole slow joe says that’s the way to go

@infinitelyexplosive4131 3 дня назад

So much better to use those magic oil-free turbines in coal power plants, right?

@lepidoptera9337 День назад

Awh, you are so cute when you are begging for attention. ;-)

@eggnogfrog 2 дня назад

3,500 Megawatts...when the wind is blowing.

@lepidoptera9337 День назад

When the wind is not blowing the sun is shining. It's all good. ;-)

@merritwalters5236 5 дней назад

Thread nuts, not bolts come on guy🤫🤫

@gman7329 День назад

That will be $11 billion dollars down the toilet!

@lepidoptera9337 День назад

Or... you could have built one 1GW nuclear power plant that would have never come online because the company would have bankrupted halfway through the job. ;-)

@tommays56 5 дней назад

Insane amount of CO2 just in the foundation

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

Nobody is claiming that wind turbine assembly is a zero-emission process. Cope.

@lastguy8613 4 дня назад

How much CO2 do you think is produced making a new coal fired power plant?

@geoffalpert3678 5 дней назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣green energy is dogshit

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

Look out everybody, Geoff dropping truth bombs /S

@lastguy8613 4 дня назад

@@DasycottusYeah he's just converted me back

@peterjachmann2953 5 дней назад

used a lot ot fossil fuel to make steel and other

@anonym3017 5 дней назад

please for the love of god do the math before spouting crap like this. 324m3 of concrete is some 132.8 tons of CO2. the steel in the foundation is another 13 tons of CO2. so 900 turbines is 131200 tons of CO2. a modern hard coal plant is at 742g CO2/kWh. So building this windpark puts out as much CO2 as generating 176.8GWh of electricity with a coal plant. or in other words this thing breaks even with an already existing 3.5GW coal plant 100 hours after being switched on assuming a capacity factor of 0.5 if you compare against a 3.5GW gas plant break even is after 150-200 hours.

@DanielIsaacs 5 дней назад

And...? The world isn't perfect, man. Go find something to be happy about.

@StevenRides 5 дней назад

great observation peter. You now know how building things works. Have a cookie!

@lastguy8613 4 дня назад

@@StevenRidesI'm not sure he survived to finish his sentence

@wim0104 5 дней назад

what exactly is "renewable" about solar modules and wind mills? that stuff wears out and gets dumped & replaced just like EVs.

@daveklein2826 3 дня назад

Get educated moron

@octaviotanya 7 часов назад

The fuel is renewable and free. There will always be wind and sun light. Oil and coal’s eventually will be all consumed.

@steamfan7147 4 дня назад

Another subsidy farm going up.

@rylars5698 5 дней назад

No match for a tornado tho 😅

@daanstam6697 5 дней назад

Neither are all those wood and cardboard houses but that doesnt seem to matter in the US

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

Direct hits from tornadoes will level pretty much any power station besides nuclear and hydropower, but it's absolutely ridiculous the sort of abuse these turbines can take. They'll shrug off 100+ mph winds like they're nothing. The same engineering that keeps turbine blades intact keeps the winds of commercial aircraft flexing at 600+mph. They're incredibly strong.

@Phyx1u5 5 дней назад

how are the "green" "sustainable" carbon epoxy blades recycled?

@robertpalmer3166 5 дней назад

You can research that on the exact same internet you asked that question on.

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

Approximately 95% of the blade material can currently be recycled. Turbine blade recycling is a 5 billion dollar industry. Look it up.

@danielrandolph9170 5 дней назад

What good is it if the electricity can't be stored & save it for another day . If you don't use it you loose it. That what I been told . I could be miss directed .

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

I know this may come as a shock, but engineers are not stupid. 🙄 They are aware that wind power only works when wind is blowing, and that solar power only works during the daytime. The turbines store surplus energy with battery banks and pumped storage hydropower. The surplus energy covers demand when wind is not blowing. If you think you may have been misdirected, why not check before making the point? It takes two seconds and you get to avoid looking foolish.

@bobwellman9717 5 дней назад

Have you never heard of batteries? How about rechargeable batteries? Before you get your panties in a bunch, I'm not saying it would be economical, just doable. I mean...11 BILLION?

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

@@bobwellman9717I bet they'll use pumped storage hydropower. For big stuff, it's often cheaper. 1) Build bigass pond/Small lake. 2) Put dam in the middle of it. 3) Use surplus wind power to pump up one side of the dam. 4) Generate hydropower with turbines in dam. Water = battery. Simple, very clever.

@bobwellman9717 5 дней назад

@@Dasycottus I was raised on the coast. For most of my life, I've been waiting for coastal regions to supply electricity using tide changes. Where I lived, there was close to 20 feet difference between low tide and high tide.

@freedomrings1420 5 дней назад

I'll stick with oil and natural gas. Thank you.

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

You realize they built this because the wind plant economics beat fossil fuels here, right? They didn't build this to make liberals happy. They built it to *make money*. This isn't activism. It's capitalism.

@zack9912000 5 дней назад

huge waste of money. These things dont last two decades

@daveklein2826 3 дня назад

Yep because you are an uneducated moron

@jz1340 5 дней назад

Tac credits makes these projects financially viable.

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

This project is privately funded and expected to make significant profits. Why are you lying about something so easy to disprove?

@CowboyDave139 5 дней назад

This is one of the most useless type of energy producers that has ever been done. We had a freeze in Texas and none of them worked.

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

BULLSHIT. The plants that failed in Texas were LNG. Two seconds of googling and you could check this. Stop believing what shithead politicians tell you and check for yourself

@SkyhawkSteve 5 дней назад

they are working fine here in the winters in the midwest.

@Meofcourse27 5 дней назад

That's because everything built in Texas sucks! Texas itself sucks. Texas likes things that explode and catch on fire killing workers and forcing people to move out of their homes for miles around. Texas sucks and the people in Texas suck!!!

@infinitelyexplosive4131 4 дня назад

You mean the freeze where 25% of natural gas plants shut down?

@daveklein2826 3 дня назад

LIAR

@SouthernBelleACe 5 дней назад

Aaron, which side are you on? Are you for Powder River Basin coal for electricity generation? Or those phony wind farms! Our country will always need base load electricity from coal. You will never have enough windmill and solar farms in the United States.

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

Who said anything about completely replacing fossil fuels? Calm down, Jesus

@johannessamuelsson6578 3 дня назад

I think he only says nice things about coal when he's reporting on coal mining. It would make sense that he's reciting talking points

@johannessamuelsson6578 3 дня назад

@@Dasycottus Then tell me why the OPEC needs to exist. (yes, petrol dollar and all that, but still)

@brentevje5939 4 дня назад

Stupid bird choppers not green at all.

@johannessamuelsson6578 3 дня назад

They actually don't kill birds. It's been proven that birds adapt to the presence of wind turbines.

@tomuchfunwithgas846 5 дней назад

What a massive waste of money and time.

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

... What on earth are you talking about? This plant isn't being built to satisfy some liberal activist-it's being built because it is more cost effective than building a coal-fired power plant at the same location. This is straight-up capitalism, my dude. Cry about it if you like. Personally, I'm just enjoying the badass engineering and talented people who build it.

@Hiukuss 5 дней назад

Cope

@FOXCRF450RIDER 5 дней назад

They are steal studs and nuts thread on them. Not pieces of steal with thread that get bolted. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@Tinbender-zr4jd 4 дня назад

Massive waste of money. The only ones who will benefit will be the Chinese and those who take their cut of the $11 billions. 14,000 abandoned windmill farms across America now. Luckily, we managed to stop 90 of those monsters from being put on our beautiful mountains here where I live.

@allon33 5 дней назад

the earth is cooling not heating, we need to build more coal power stations, like yesterday

@DanielIsaacs 5 дней назад

Hahahaha! Good one! Should include the /s tag so ppl know you're being sarcastic, and aren't actually severely misinformed.

@allon33 5 дней назад

@@DanielIsaacs I'm not being sarcastic, Europe is about to enter another ice-age. I'm very serious. The gulf-stream is about to stop, ice will be here in as little as 10 years.

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

@@allon33 Have you been garnishing your food with lead paint chips?

@allon33 5 дней назад

@@Dasycottus Personal attacks, are not as good as having the facts. 😎

@DanielIsaacs 4 дня назад

@@allon33 That's a possibility, but a change in the gulf stream would affect local climates, not global. the 90% of land not impacted by it will be warmer.

@JasonthePlumber 5 дней назад

Wind power is useless

@tristenklein5940 5 дней назад

Only supplies less than 2% of our energy needs and only produces when the wind blows making it unreliable as it destroys the environment and isn’t recycled as fossil fuels are but plenty of politicians and their cronies are cashing in on billions of taxpayer dollars as they destroy every aspect of our lives and livelihood.

@MADEINNSW 5 дней назад

"This will power 3 million homes" (but jason the plumber says NO)

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

@@tristenklein5940Why spout demonstrable lies that can be debunked with a half second google search? 10.2% in 2022 alone. www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

@JasonthePlumber 4 дня назад

@@MADEINNSW That's correct 👍🏼

@fasteddiesgarage5000 5 дней назад

They are really building this giant eyesore that dont work when theres no wind

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

... Somebody has never heard of batteries or pumped storage hydropower. They store surplus energy when the wind blows, and release it to the grid when it doesn't. Also, "eyesore"? No more than a mine. Personally, I think both look badass because they're fill of gigantic machines that make me feel like a little kid

@Control-Alt-Delete619 5 дней назад

Blattner used to bid large scale rock projects, and now all they dip their hands in is renewable energy. 🪨🤦👎🍻🇺🇲

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

... You're aware that renewable energy infrastructure also requires large-scale rock projects, right? 🤣

@Control-Alt-Delete619 5 дней назад

@@Dasycottus yeah right, do you even know what you're talking about???❓❓❓ I bid 4 & 5 million cubic yard projects in solid granite, and the entire project has to be blasted. We blast at least twice a week on each project, but often times we find ourselves having to blast 3 or 4 times a week. I don't believe you've actually ever seen a real rock project in your entire life. 🤦👎

@Dasycottus 5 дней назад

I wasn't aware that the building materials for clean energy infrastructure magically teleported themselves to the surface of the earth. Mines and quarries aren't going anywhere. @@Control-Alt-Delete619