Developing a Solar-Wildlife Database to Improve Siting and Permitting of Solar Energy Facilities

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This project is designing and constructing a nationwide solar-wildlife data-sharing infrastructure that enables access for stakeholders to assess solar-wildlife interactions and improve wildlife management practices that maximize benefits from solar development. The project team will leverage its experience developing data-sharing infrastructure for the wind industry and will solicit input from stakeholders to develop standardized data collection instruments that enable data from different solar facilities to be compared.