DTBat News

04 Avr

At first, at the end of 2015, DTBirdV4 started operating in the offshore Platform FINO 1, over 40km offshore in the North Sea, contracted by the Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH). This year the models DTBirdV4D8 and DTBirdV8 have been installed for the first time in onshore wind turbines in Lower Saxony and Bavaria.

DTBird will participate in the following events, the first one giving the guest lecture of "Field Ornithology" at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf on April 10th. In the second event DTBird will attend WindEnergy Hamburg at hall A1, stand 203 on September 25-28th.

DTBird models installation in onshore wind turbine Germany

DTBird models installed in onshore wind turbines, Germany.

DTBird and DTBat start operating in The Netherlands

04 Avr

First DTBirdV8 unit and DTBatD3 unit have started operating in Windpark Krammer, located in Zeeland, The Netherlands. Additional units will be installed during the wind farm construction until 2019. These are the first DTBird&DTBat units installed in concrete towers.

DTBird model installation Wind Farm Krammer The Netherlands

DTBirdV4D8 model is included in LIFE project

26 Mar

The model DTBirdV4D8 has been installed in the Wind Farm Terna, in Thrace (Greece) under the project LIFE12 BIO/GR/000554. This project aims to demonstrate the practical application of post-construction assessment and post-construction mitigation. DTBird was already participating in the LIFE project with the model DTBirdV4D4 that started operating at the Wind Farm and the Park of Energy Awareness (PENA) of CRES at Keratea (Greece) at the beginning of 2016.

DTBirdV4D8 installation in Wind Farm Terna Greece

DTBird model V4D8 installation in Wind Farm Terna, Greece.

DTBird Team visits the wind farm where a new test program has started

14 Nov

Two DTBirdV4D8 units are operating with Collision Avoidance module D8 (8 speakers distributed at 2 heights, below the lower point reached by the blades and below the nacelle). Each unit has two settings (sound activated/muted) which switch from one to the other every week. Every week, one unit has the sound activated while the other is muted.

The wind farm is located in Castilla y León (Spain) and the most frecuent species detected in the vicinity of the wind turbines are: Gyps fulvus, Milvus milvus, Buteo buteo and Falco ssp.

The collected data will be used for the species specific evaluation of the DTBird Collision Avoidance module.

DTBird DTBat team visit Spanish wind farm Castilla y León

DTBird&DTBat Team wind farm visit in Castilla y León, Spain.

DTBird finishes first phase of a research program to improve the Collision Avoidance module

14 Nov

DTBird in cooperation with the Spanish Wildlife Recovery Center (GREFA) and the Animal Medicine and Veterinary Surgery Faculty of the Complutense (Spanish University) has tested the hearing of the following bird species: Aquila chrysaetos, Falco naumanni, Gyps fulvus and Milvus milvus.

The Audiogram Plots of these species will be used to create new species-specific collision avoidance sounds and to adjust the design of speaker's location and sound levels emitted, customized for both target species and wind turbine dimensions. The bird's hearing research is still open to add more species and individuals.

DTBird GREFA UCM Gyps fulvus hearing test

Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) sedated during the hearing test.

New Orders For 35 DTBird&DTBat Units

03 Juil

We have filed orders for 35 units of the models DTBirdV4D4, DTBirdV4D8, DTBirdV8D10, DTBirdN2 (Night Detection model) and DTBatD3, to be installed in France, Greece, the Netherlands and Spain.

Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts

03 Juil

You can meet the DTBird® Team and experience first hand how our system works!

Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts

6 – 8 SEPTEMBER 2017, ESTORIL - PORTUGAL

Visit DTBird & DTBat booth 10

DTBird & DTBat at CWW 2017.

Meet DTBird Team

23 Mai

You can meet DTBird^® Team and experience first hand our system: AWEA WINDPOWER 2017

May 22 - 25, 2017. Anaheim, CA.

Visit DTBird & DTBat booth 3951

DTBird & DTBat at AWEA Windpower 2017

DTBird & DTBat Booth 3951 at AWEA Windpower 2017.

Results of the latest evaluation of DTBirdV4D4

06 Mar

In 2015 Ecocom, in collaboration Vindform, initiated a pilot project to install and showcase the DTBird system, and to evaluate how the DTBird system performs under Swedish conditions. The report (in Swedish) can be found in the following link: Pilotinstallation av DTBird-systemet i Sverige Möjligheter med skyddssystem för fågelfaunan vid vindkraftanläggningar – erfarenheter från Sveriges första installation av DTBird. Ecocom AB. Amongst others it includes the following results:

The system is viable for bird detection and enables species' identification of large and medium-sized birds.
The system offers effective protection above all for large birds by reducing their dwell time in the risk area between 61-87%.
The system triggers avoidance behaviour in 88% of cases where the bird is on a collision course with the wind turbine. An individual observation was performed for the White-Tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) where the avoidance behaviour was noted as well.
The reports' sumary was translated to English by DTBird in the link: Experiences from Sweden's first DTBird instalation. Ecocom AB.

The video of the White-Tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) collision avoidance is available in DTBirdteam Youtube channel: DTBird Collision Avoidance: White-tailed Eagle.