Birds Flying Into Solar Panels

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 flying into solar panels.

Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded. Though damage to the solar panels is minimal officials. 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.

Rodents like squirrels also commonly travel under the panels and chew wiring. 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 also can land on top of the 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.

Meanwhile wind turbines and solar panels are going up at a record pace and scientists are reporting a full blown crisis in the disappearance of 29 percent of north american birds. The ivanpah solar electric generating system the world s largest. I did a diy solar panel install and i was afraid that i was going to have birds nesting under my solar panels so i decided to put wire mesh screen around my.