Laurel山风电场，有130万个电池以及电子元件。电池和电子设备被安置在24个大型集装箱内，周围有5个电线杆，每个都有一个250瓦的泛光灯。
10月3日，野生动物专家在风电场监督区内发现了314只死鸟，但在附近的风力发电机附近没有发现死鸟。
风电运动协调员Kelly Fuller说：这是我所知道的美国风电设施附近发现的死亡量最大的事件，但与风力发电机本身并没有什么联系。看起来，储能设施上的照明设备是罪魁祸首。这对于以后的储能建设将是一个借鉴，避免在发生同样类似的事情。
A West Virginia wind farm that I wrote about last month because of its battery installation was the site of a big bird kill in October, according to a consultant’s report for the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Laurel Mountain wind farm, near the town of Elkins, has 1.3 million batteries and electronic components that convert the wind power from direct current to alternating current and back again so the electricity can be put on the grid. The batteries and the electronic equipment are housed in 24 large containers on a gravel pad surrounded by five utility poles, each with a 250-watt floodlight on it.
A wildlife biologist based in Topsham, Me., with the consulting service Stantec reported that his firm’s field inspectors had found 314 dead birds near the wind farm during an inspection on Oct. 3. “Carcasses appeared very fresh, with mortality likely occurring on the previous one to three nights,” the report said. No dead birds were found near the wind machines themselves.
The birds were migrating in conditions of high winds and fog, with a low cloud ceiling. “These conditions would likely have caused nocturnal migrants to fly closer to the ground, where they could have been attracted to the night lighting at the substation facility,” the report said. The birds “either collided with structures at the substation or circled to the point of exhaustion,” it said.
Between Oct. 3 and Oct. 18, searchers found 484 carcasses, which were analyzed by biologists. Blackpoll warblers made up 65 percent, and ovenbirds, 7.5 percent. Twenty-eight other species were found, including thrushes, cuckoos and one green heron. Nine birds were listed as unknown.
The American Bird Conservancy said this was the third such incident in West Virginia, and it suggested that the solution was to turn off the lights. In fact, that is what technicians at the site did after discovering the dead birds.
“This is the largest bird kill at a U.S. wind facility that I’m aware of,”’ Kelly Fuller, the wind campaign coordinator at the conservancy, said in an e-mail. She emphasized that the wind turbines themselves were not involved.
“It appears lighting at the battery storage facility was the culprit,” she said. “It’s going to be very important as battery storage goes forward that this lesson is learned and doesn’t happen at other facilities.”