As the province tries to reach a 40-per-cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, there's a plan for wind energy to play a big part.

Yesterday it was announced that Saskatchewan Environment Minister Dustin Duncan approved the Blue Hill Wind Energy Project.

It's a large-scale project that'll be south of Herbert.

Its planned location had to change, causing a delay, due to a migratory bird path.

Duncan said the experience will be good for the province setting up future projects.

"We'll see more the ability to approve projects that come forward in a much more timely fashion, and working in conjunction with SaskPower, SaskPower obvously has some timelines established for when they need to bring on more wind capacity to hit that 2030 deadline."

Work is supposed to start in 2019 and things could be up and running by 2021.

The turbines are supposed to add 177 megawatts of energy for SaskPower customers, which the government said would power 70,000 houses.

In a release the government said the site is outside avoidance zones outlined in the Wildlife Siting Guidelines for wind energy projects in the province, and that the company also did thorough wildlife surveys as part of an environmental-impact assessment.