Birds Flying Into Solar Panels

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.

Birds flying into solar panels.

The ivanpah solar electric generating system the world s largest. Horror at the world s largest solar farm days after it opens as it is revealed panels are scorching birds that fly over them. 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 love the shelter provided underneath solar panels and can deposit significant droppings and nesting materials.

Birds also can land on top of the 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. So if the bird is flying in some frames you.

The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar. Though damage to the solar panels is minimal officials. Rodents like squirrels also commonly travel under the panels and chew wiring.