11 November 2010 (North American Windpower)
"The minute blind date of research to appraisal the interaction among bats and wind turbines at the Casselman Twist High proportion Extend shows that upward cut-in speed of the turbines - the minimum wind speed essential for turbines to begin gyratory and producing electricity - inside low wind periods in the slow summer and fresh tumble insignificant bat fatality up to 93%. [Count again on the highest blind date appraisal impart.]
"The appraisal was published online in Frontiers in Environment and the Scenery, a account of the Pure Union of America...Iberdrola Renewables, the owner of the Casselman wind farm, partnered in imitation of unbiased continuation corpse Bat Protection Worldwide (BCI) to conduct the appraisal at the southwestern Pennsylvania wind power project."
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"BCI's win is human being conducted blunt the Bats and Twist Enthusiasm Cooperative, which is a confederation of the American Twist Enthusiasm Edict, the U.S. Buddy and Wildlife Advance, the Shape Renewable Enthusiasm Laboratory and BCI. The cooperative's win focuses on identifying and addressing swear wind energy impacts on bats."
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"From slow July to mid-October in 2008 and anew in 2009, Iberdrola Renewables, execution in imitation of BCI researchers, conducted a peaceable parade in which selected wind turbines at the Casselman project were stopped up inside somewhat low wind speed nights...
"In the face of it was extreme for this appraisal, curtailing turbine operations is not actual to be the completion fraud to dropping the conflict on bats in all territory or locations, but it may be a convenient fraud at clear northeastern U.S. sites where elevated bat fatality has been a be concerned..."
