The ProBat software enables a reduction in the number of bat victims at wind turbines. The project involves developing the software in cooperation with the user groups (developers, surveyors, approval authorities, operators). The new ProBat Version 7.0 was releases in December 2020 and features a web-based application and compliance monitoring of the calculated shut-down algorithms. At the same time ideas for effective long-term sponsorship and funding are being developed.
The ProBat software calculates site-specific shut-down algorithms for wind turbines based on the scientific research results from the RENEBAT projects and subject to various environmental parameters and the measured bat activity. From the user perspective, a need for improvement in various areas was identified. During the project term, Version 6.1 was further developed up to Version 7.0.
The new Version 7.0 provides better tools to authorities and wind farm operators to verify the correct use of the tool and the compliance of turbine operation with the cut-in wind speeds calculated. There are also additional natural regions integrated in the software close to the coast and in the south of Germany. It is now easier to include additional parameters as temperature and precipitation into the development of a bat-friendly WT operation.
In the run-up to the application an initial scope of services was compiled with the different user groups. This was refined once more before the start of the project. The contract for programming Version 7.0 was be awarded to the project partners. As the lead partner, the Naturstiftung David organised the exchange of experience with the different user groups and leads the development of a concept for the long-term safeguarding of the further development of ProBat.
Download of ProBat 7.0: www.probat.org
An issue of the BfN-series “InPractice”was also published on the research project (in German only).
Naturstiftung David
Trommsdorffstr. 5, 99084 Erfurt
Adrian Johst
Tel: +49 361 5550330
post(at)naturstiftung-david.de
OekoFor GbR
Vordere Poche 11, 79104 Freiburg
oikostat GmbH
Rothmättli 16, CH - 6218 Ettiswil
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
FG II 4.3 Nature conservation and renewable energies
Alte Messe 6, 04103 Leipzig
Nora Köcher
Tel.: +49 341 30977 166
Nora.Koecher(at)BfN.de
How can the expansion in renewable energies be designed in harmony with nature? The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) is providing expert scientific advice on this question to the Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Bundesumweltministerium, BMUB). Research by the BfN always has a practical application and generates scientific results for advising government i.e. supplies a basis for decision-making for the preparation, implementation, monitoring and further development of nature conservation measures and the Federal Government's nature conservation policy.
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