Marine

Bird collisions with wind turbines

March 26, 2014 by Paul Stainer No Comments | Category Marine Directorate Science, Marine Renewables

Collisions of birds with turbine blades is one of the big issues in environmental impact assessment of offshore wind farms.

© RSPB

MS helped to establish a one year project at UHI Thurso on uncertainty in the models used to assess collision risk. Dr Liz Masden has a MREKE Fellowship to do the work. There have been a couple of Press references to the project recently.

Comments