We are excited to share that WEST’s Kent Russell is featured on CBC’s What on Earth with Laura Lynch podcast. This podcast dives into the complex balance between renewable energy and bat conservation.
Kent dives into WEST’s Optimized Smart Curtailment™, a tailored, site-specific curtailment algorithm designed to reduce unnecessary power production losses without compromising bat conservation.
“Ultimately, it’ll be a single set of rules that would get programed into the turbine so that the turbines turn on and off through the night as the schedule prescribes,” cutting profit losses by about half while conserving bats during windows of curtailment. – Kent
Listen here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-429-what-on-earth/clip/16172182-bats-vs.-wind-energy-gory-tale-two-climate
