Wind Energy and Wildlife Interactions

This book presents a selection of new insights in understanding and mitigating impacts on wildlife and their habitats. Topics such as, species behaviour and responses; collision risk and fatality estimation; landscape features and gradients, are considered.

Other chapters in the book cover the results of current research on mitigation; compensation; effectiveness of measures; monitoring and long-term effects; planning and siting.
Examples are given of current research on shutdown on demand and curtailment algorithms.
By identifying what we have learned so far, and which predominate uncertainties and gaps remain for future research, this book contributes to the most up to date knowledge on research and management options.

This book includes presentations from the Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife impacts (CWW15), March 2015, hosted by the Berlin Institute of Technology, which offered a platform to national and international participants to showcase the current state of knowledge in wind energy's wildlife implications.

Assessment of interactions and impacts of birds and bats with wind turbines, such as for the strongly protected red kite and multispecies assessment of avian mortality rates New insights in understanding and mitigating impacts on wildlife and their habitats (e.g. curtailment algorithm for bats, shutdown on demand for birds) Review of current research of location and spatial design of wind turbines Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Johann Köppel is a full professor at the Berlin Institute of Technology (Germany) and head of the Environmental Assessment and Planning (Research Group) (www.umweltpruefung.tu-berlin.de). He specializes in impact assessments, and has been involved in the sustainable development of wind energy since more than a decade. He served in CWW's scientific committees since 2011 and hosted the CWW2015 conference in Berlin. Current relevant research focuses on a horizon scan as far as 'emerging issues' for future research and applications are concerned. Contact: johann.koeppel@tu-berlin.de

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  Inhalt

Red Kites and wind farms telemetry data from the core breeding range.- Unforeseen responses of a breeding seabird to the construction of an offshore wind farm.- A large-scale, multispecies assessment of avian mortality rates at land-based wind turbines in northern Germany.- A method to assess the population-level consequences of wind energy on bird and bat species.- Bat activity at nacelle height over forest.- Bird mortality in two Dutch wind farms: effects of location, spatial design and interactions with powerlines.- Radar assisted shutdown on demand ensures zero soaring bird mortality at a wind farm located in a migratory flyway.- Mitigating bat mortality with turbine-specific curtailment algorithms: a model based approach.- Is there a State-of-the-Art to Reduce Pile-Driving Noise?.- The Challenges of Repowering in the Context of Wildlife Impacts.- Wind farms in areas of high ornithological value conflicts, solutions, challenges: the case of Thrace, Greece.- Introducing a NewAvian Sensitivity Mapping Tool to Support the Siting of Wind Farms in the Middle East and Northeast Africa.- A framework for assessing ecological and cumulative effects (FAECE) of offshore wind farms on birds, bats and marine mammals in the southern North Sea.- Wind turbines and birds in Germany examples of current knowledge, new insights and remaining gaps.- Future research directions to reconcile windwildlife interactions.- Sharing Information on Environmental Effects of Wind Energy Development: WREN Hub