ZWEMT - Zwarte Wiek Expansie van Monitoring door Technologie
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The ZWEMT project, officially titled ”ZWEMT Zwarte Wiek Expansie van Monitoring door Technologie”, was an initiative aimed at enhancing the monitoring of wind turbines to study their impact on bird behaviour and collisions. The project, which started on June 1, 2023, and ended on January 31, 2025, was a collaboration between TNO, power company RWE and funded by TKI offshore energy, the projectgroup ”Zwarte Wiek” represented by the Province of Groningen, and the WOZEP program of Rijkswaterstaat. Waardenburg Ecology provided ecological support. The primary goal of the overarching Zwarte Wiek project was to investigate the effectiveness of painting one blade of a wind turbine black to improve its visibility to birds and reduce collisions. The ZWEMT project was an additional effort aiming at increasing data quality through the use of additional instrumentation. Various sensors, including vibration sensors, thermal cameras, visual cameras, and microphones, were installed in and around the turbines to monitor bird behaviour and collisions. The project also employed a 3D bird radar to map flight behaviour in the vicinity of the turbines.
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TNO Identifier
1026075
Publisher
TNO
Collation
40 p.
Place of publication
Petten