Birds Killed Over Solar Panel Fields

The problem has been going on since the site opened in 2014 and the team says it s trying everything to save the birds from a fiery fate.

Birds killed over solar panel fields.

Yes birds have died at solar farms most famously at the ivanpah project in san bernardino county where birds have been incinerated as they fly through the solar flux reflected by fields of. The link between solar facilities and bird deaths is still unclear. One leading theory suggests birds mistake the glare from solar panels for the surface of a lake and swoop in for a landing with. Heat emanating from the ivanpah solar electric generating system the world s largest solar farm of its kind has allegedly killed and injured dozens of birds and other wildlife.

Fish and wildlife service. That s the name given to birds as their feathers ignite mid air after flying through a concentrated beam of sunlight. We take this issue very seriously said jeff holland a spokesman for nrg solar of carlsbad california the second of the three companies behind the plant. Solar farms have been criticized for their impacts on desert tortoises and wind farms have killed birds including numerous raptors.

Meanwhile as many as 28 000 birds are killed each year that s one every two minutes by the ivanpah solar plant in the mojave desert according to the u s. Federal biologists say about 6 000 birds die from collisions or immolation annually while chasing flying insects around the facility s three 40 story towers which catch sunlight from five square. Meanwhile we ve built more wind turbines. Bird scientist shawn smallwood testified that one large solar farm alone the ivanpah solar panel project in california likely kills 28 380 birds annually.

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 in.