Year Published: 2018 Map-based collision hazard models were prepared as a set of tools to help guide the careful siting of proposed new wind turbines as part of the repowering effort at Sand Hill in the eastern Alameda County portion of the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA). Similar collision hazard models were prepared for…
Author: H.T. Harvey & AssociatesPublication: American Wind and Wildlife InstituteYear Published: 2018 Bird collisions with anthropogenic objects are well documented in the literature, including those involving wind turbines. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and help improve the effectiveness of an automated detection and deterrent system designed to minimize the risk of raptors…
Author: Matthew WylderPublication: Wind Harvest InternationalYear Published: 2014 WHI commissioned UCD engineer Matt Wylder to take the Scottish Natural Heritage model for calculating bird strikes in HAWTs and redo it for VAWTs. His paper “Vertical Axis Wind Turbines and Birds: Calculating a Theoretical Collision Risk Assuming No Avoiding Action” summarizes a number of runs he…
Author: Blair UrquhartPublication: Scottish Natural HeritageYear Published: 2010 The SNH Collision Risk Model (CRM) provides an estimate of the potential number of bird collisions likely to occur at a proposed wind farm. Birds react to a wind farm in different ways. Some may be displaced from the area of the wind farm, while others may…
Publication: Scottish Natural HeritageYear Published: 2000 Windfarms may impact on ornithological interests in a number of ways. There may be: loss of habitat due to the construction of turbine bases and tracks, displacement of birds as a result of disturbance, and potential mortality through collision. SNH Guidance note describes a methodology for assessing in full…