New technologies for bird detection and protection on wind turbines
The installation of wind turbines on Gotland rose strongly within the last decades. In parallel to that, the amount of breeding white-tailed eagles and golden eagles on Gotland increased considerably. It is very probable that the utilization of renewable energies on Gotland will continue to flourish in the future, since the Swedish Energy Agency has released a feasibility-study on a 100% renewable energy supply for the island in April 2018. Bird detection and protection systems on wind turbines are essential in this context.
Wind energy contributes directly to global biodiversity protection via climate change mitigation. We want to make sure that local biodiversity protection is not neglected in this context.
As local sales- and service-partner of the French technology supplier Biodiv-Wind SAS, WAILA AB offers innovative bird detection and protection systems for wind turbine operators in Sweden.
The BirdSentinel and SafeWind technologies:
- detect birds and bats in the complete rotor area via real-time-video-monitoring
- record all flight movements and/or collisions
- analyze the collision risk of every flight movement
- trigger protection measurements such as acoustic warning signals and a reduction of the rotor rotation speed
- stop the protection measurements immediately once the birds move away from the wind turbine to effectively reduce wind energy yield losses
If you want to learn more about the BirdSentinel and SafeWind Systems, do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
