Statkraft will also test the use of UV light at its 150MW Smøla wind farm as part of the multi-agency INTACT research project.

The project team claimed that if successful, contrast painting could provide a simple, low-cost route to solving one of the wind industry’s environmental challenges, particularly offshore.

Four of the Smøla plant’s 68 turbines will have one of their three blades painted black to see if it reduces fatalities among large birds such as the white-tailed eagle, which have been found dead after colliding with turbines at Smøla.

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