Articles about Environmental Impacts and Siting

Testing validates system accuracy, provides comprehensive picture of bird and bat activity.

For the past two decades, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office has worked on ways to protect bats at wind farms.

WETO is seeking input on high-priority environmental research needs regarding impact assessment, model validation, and monitoring and mitigation.

Flight-path monitoring aims to determine the effectiveness of ultrasonic acoustic deterrents.

Series will discuss offshore wind turbine radar interference mitigation strategies and research needs for offshore wind development.

Addressing Wind Energy Innovation Challenges

As we embark on a new fiscal year, we’d like to share some of our key accomplishments from Fiscal Year 2019.

Small, light, wide-range tags more effectively track behavior and flight patterns, safeguarding bats from potential encounters with wind turbines.

The subsequent contract will support emerging technologies that detect and deter bird and bat encounters with wind energy facilities.

DOE selected ten projects totaling $6.8 million that will reduce the impacts of land-based and offshore wind energy on bats and other wildlife.