Well it s mainly due to the plant s overall design and location.
Birds burn over solar panels.
Some solar developers have been powering down bright lights that had attracted insects at night or switching to leds and using.
So why is this happening.
This results in birds colliding with the surface of the panels.
Bird barrier offers a solar panel protection kit to prevent birds from getting under the panels.
The sight of a bird being fried to death is so common at the ivanpah solar plant in california s mojave desert that workers have nicknamed the smouldering birds streamers because they leave tiny wisps of white smoke behind as they burn up in the sky.
A quasi food chain is being established around the solar plant with predators eating birds and bats that burn up in the plant s solar rays chasing after insects which are attracted to the bright.
The problem of bird deaths at solar power farms is a complex one.
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.
Environmentalists have hit out at a giant new solar farm in the mojave desert as mounting evidence reveals birds flying through the extremely hot thermal flux surrounding the towers are being.