This is a very short article with an absolute dearth of information and an extremely misleading and baiting headline. If someone is willing to do the legwork to

This is a very short article with an absolute dearth of information and an extremely misleading and baiting headline. If someone is willing to do the legwork to locate some real information these projects, this technology, and what Duke is doing I’d really appreciate it, but this article in particular is far too low quality to justify its position on the front of this site as is. Wind turbines can and do kill bats. We (as an industry) unfortunately learned this in the wrong way initially, when we sited and built wind projects without doing the study and siting work that what we should have done. But now when we site projects and machines now we try to do things right. For projects that pose risk to bats that involves wildlife studies from third party experts that include evaluation of bat habitat, identifying bat hibernacula, performing mist netting and bat habitation studies to identify actual species presence, and where needed incorporating turbine curtailment approaches to reduce bat take. We consult with the US Fish & Wildlife Service as well. The approach for birds of concern is similar, but mitigation approaches vary by species. Note: I am not a bat or wildlife expert myself. But I work with these firms during project development, and I support the technical side of consultations with FWS, and so on.