Birds Getting Killed By Solar Panels

With a concentraing solar plant birds can be harmed when they fly too close to the path of the reflected solar energy.

Birds getting killed by solar panels.

Workers at a state of the art solar plant in the mojave desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant s concentrated sun rays streamers for the smoke plume from birds that ignite. 15 september 2016 a rare and unusual type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight in california is accidentally killing up to 6 000 birds every year with staff reporting that the birds keep flying into its concentrated beams of sunlight and spontaneously bursting into flames. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded. One leading theory suggests birds mistake the glare from solar panels for the surface of a lake and swoop in for a landing with.

The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar power. Meanwhile we ve built more wind turbines. The estimate by biologists is that the ivanpah solar plant kills about 3 500 birds per year this way. If they do they can basically get cooked by the high energy rays.

The low estimate for bird deaths from solar power comes from the solar company brightsource which was recently accused by the center for biological diversity of operating a solar farm that kills. The link between solar facilities and bird deaths is still unclear.