Birds Flying Into Solar Panels

The ivanpah solar electric generating system the world s largest.

Birds flying into solar panels.

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. I did a diy solar panel install and i was afraid that i was going to have birds nesting under my solar panels so i decided to put wire mesh screen around my. So if the bird is flying in some frames you. Birds also can land on top of the panels.

Rodents like squirrels also commonly travel under the panels and chew wiring. Most of the 61 avian deaths at the project including a brown pelican and western grebes were attributed to birds flying into the solar panels. This is even a problem for solar panel facilities which see up to 138 000 bird deaths per year in the us from collisions with equipment. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded.

Horror at the world s largest solar farm days after it opens as it is revealed panels are scorching birds that fly over them. The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar. One leading theory suggests birds mistake the glare from solar panels for the surface of a lake and swoop in for a landing with deadly results.