Large photovoltaic power plants: Wildlife impacts and benefits

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 002011-002016

  Fthenakis, Vasilis ^a   Blunden, Julie ^b   Green, Tim ^a   Krueger, Lisa ^b   Turney, Damon ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SunPower ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY; CALIFORNIA; IMPACT MITIGATION; NEW YORK; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANT; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRIVATE LAND;

ANIMALS; POWER PLANTS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84861065571     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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