Agustin Rioperez, the CEO of DTBird&DTBat, was among the guest speakers at the recent Winwind Workshop on The new Balearic law on Climate Change and the opportunities to integrate wind energy in protected areas held on November 8th on the Island of Menorca (Spain).

Agustin's presentation on the features of the different DTBird&DTBat models was followed by a discussion about the applicability of the technology in the wind farms proposed for the Balearic Islands.

DTBird’s ability to detect and deter large raptors, particularly golden eagles, and to reduce the risk of collisions with wind turbines (WTG) was evaluated in the USA by H.T. Harvey & Associates for the American Wind Wildlife Institute.

The evaluation was carried out in 7 DTBirdV4D4 units installed in 2016 in a California wind farm, using eagle-like unmanned aerial vehicles (aka, UAV) with a 2 m wingspan, and studying in situ large raptor behavior registered during 2017.

The evaluation yielded the following major results:

• DTBirdV4 Detection Module:
  • Up to 99%¹ Overall eagle-like UAV Detection rate from > 230 m to the Rotor Swept Area (RSA).
  • 63% mean Detection rate per distance band of 30 m (7 distance bands from >230 m to the RSA).
  • 2.5 False Positive rate (flight recording of something other than birds)/WTG/day².
• DTBirdD4 Collision Avoidance Module:
  • Deterrence response rates³ when considering unequivocally successful deterrence and potential deterrence:
    • 52-83% for golden eagles.
    • 36-76% for buteos.
    • 39-78% for all raptors. 
• DTBirdV4D4 service reliability⁴:
  • >98% System.
  • >98% HD Cameras.
  • 100% Collision Avoidance.

To see the original report with DTBird notes, please go to this Link.

DTBirdV4D4 unit installed at Manzana Wind Power Project.

After several months of preparation, the new offices and assembling facilities have started full production. The space has been doubled to more than 600 m² and the staff has grown to over 20 technicians that are working on research, manufacturing, and providing technical support to over 100 DTBird&DTBat operational units.

This expansion will make it possible for us to install over 100 new units during the next six months in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Spain and the USA.

Photos of new DTBird offices and assembling facilities

DTBird&DTBat technicians presented the latest models with upgraded features to over 50 companies and public organizations. They also discussed the results of the latest evaluation of DTBirdV4D4 (model 2016) in the USA. 

Currently DTBird is operating in 2 onshore wind farms in Germany and it is scheduled to be installed in another wind farm in the following months. Additionally, DTBird has been operating in the offshore Platform FINO 1 for over 2 years.

DTBird&DTBat stand at WindEnergy Expo in Hamburg.

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Our mission

To be the international reference in birds and bats monitoring and protection technology in windfarms, closely collaborating with our interested parties in making wind energy compatible with birds and bats.

Our vision

• To be global leader in birds and bats monitoring and protection technology in windfarms.
• Contribute to global sustainability, making ethical and sustainable solutions.
• To be allies of the wind industry.

Our values

• Ethics.
• Transparency.
• Innovation.
• Quality and added value. 
• Flexible solutions.
• Long-term collaboration with our interested parties.

Our commitments

We are developing a Management System which meets the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 to ensure a high level of quality, customer satisfaction and minimize our environmental impacts. DTBird^® & DTBat^® is committed to take the following approach.

• Know and satisfy the relevant needs and expectations of our customers, as well as the relevant requirements of the interested parties relevant to the management system.
• Be flexible to adapt to the requirements of our customers in a dynamic, changing and competitive environment.
• Identify and comply with the legal and regulatory requirements that are applicable to our activities.
• Communicate to the customer or other relevant interested parties, as far in advance as possible, the incidents that may occur in the provision of the service and thus minimize the impact that these may have.
• To seek continuous improvement of the efficiency of our production and management processes that allows us to be competitive.
• Ensure the satisfaction of our customers in terms of compliance with applicable requirements.
• Collaborating with suppliers for a sustainable future.
• Minimize our environmental impacts.
• Health and Safety is fully integrated in company management, aligned with strategic direction.
• Comply with global safety, health and environmental regulations and standards to ensure that labor rights are honored, and to reduce risks and healthy environment. Achieve a high level of security in our operations, beyond legal compliance.
• Guarantee consultation and participation of workers.

 How we manage our policies

 DTBird^® & DTBat^® implements these policies through an annual program of activities.

• Reviewing periodically external and internal issues that affect or may affect our services, activities and facilities.
• The detection of risk and opportunities for improvement in our management system and its processes, through periodic reviews of it that guarantee its permanent adaptation and suitability to the demands of an increasingly competitive market and an environment in constant evolution.
• Identifying legislation and periodically reviewing legal compliance.
• Assuring compliance with our quality standards through all over system design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, servicing (operation and maintenance), and monitoring activities.
• Identifying the requirements of our relevant interested parties and establishing how to satisfy them.
• Identifying all activities that generate or may generate a significant environmental impact; in case it is negative to proceed to its minimization and in case it is positive to enhance said impact.
• Implementing zero waste on customers' facilities.
• Evolving our devices to increase their efficiency and so playing an active role on biodiversity protection in our customers’ windfarms.
• Analyzing whether the processes can be improved from the point of view of environmental performance and applying those improvements.
• Providing safe and healthy working conditions to guarantee the prevention of injuries and deterioration of health.
• Training employees on the dangers and risks associated with the facilities and activities and services they develop.

 

22/05/2023

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 installed in onshore wind turbines, Germany.

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.

DTBird model V4D8 installation in Wind Farm Terna, Greece.

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 wind farm visit in Castilla y León, Spain.

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.

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