CX-030349: Establishing Baseline Data on Bat Activity in The Offshore Environment: Developing Tools and Models to Quantify Risk of Offshore Wind Energy Development

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to deploy passive acoustic bat detectors and passive radio telemetry equipment to define the envelope in which bat activity occurs along the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington. Findings would help identify the risk that offshore wind development may pose to bats along the West Coast of the U.S as well as advance the development of monitoring technologies.