Birds Flying Over 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.

Birds flying over solar panels.

Though damage to the solar panels is minimal officials. Solar power installed by residents either on their roof or a ground installation do not harm birds at all. Dead insects and possibly birds fall to the ground in trails of smoke that plant workers call streamers after flying too close to a giant boiler at the ivanpah solar power station near the. Fast moving object over time.

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. 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. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded. In fact birds will often nest in the space between your solar panels and the roof because it provides a nice protected area.

The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar. 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. This is true whether the technology is photovoltaic panels or solar thermal collectors.