Bird-Line Collision

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) teamed up with EDM International Inc. (EDM), the Dawson Public Power District, and the National Audubon Society in Kearney, Nebraska to try to solve all these problems simultaneously with the Avian Collision Avoidance System (ACAS). The engineering involved in deploying the ACAS — such as solar power calculations and verifying towers can support the weight — is likely appropriate only in situations where bird collisions are known to be an ongoing problem for very specific spans. Read the peer-reviewed scientific article “Near-Ultraviolet Light Reduced Sandhill Crane Collisions with a Power Line by 98%,” published in the May 2019 issue of The Condor: Ornithological Applications by James Dwyer, Arun Pandey, Laura McHale, and Rick Harness.