ENVIRONMENTAL
EDM’S team of expert biologists are adept at helping clients implement cutting-edge solutions to improve reliability and maintain agency compliance for animal interactions with power infrastructure.
Avian protection plans
Development and implementation of customized utility program designed to reduce bird mortality from electrocutions and collisions while improving grid reliability.
Avian Program Implementation Support
Avian - Risk Assessments
Permitting (BGEPA, MBTA, SPUT)
Animal interaction mitigation and training – distribution, transmission, substations, renewables
Standards development and review – retrofitting and new construction
Nest surveys and monitoring
Nest management and mitigation
STAND-ALONE Projects
Avian collision/electrocution risk assessments
Outage investigations and mitigation recommendations
Wildlife damage assessments (woodpeckers, contamination)
Wildfire ignition risk assessments
Product development and testing
Legal support
INDUSTRY-WIDE INitiatives
Applied research
Technology development:
Monitoring – Bird Strike Indicator (BSI)
Deterrent – Avian Collision Avoidance System (ACAS)
Mitigation – UAS collision marking system
Training and workshops
Active participation in utility committees
AVIAN COLLISION
AVOIDANCE SYSTEM (ACAS)
The Avian Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) offers a new approach to reducing avian collision mortality with suspended obstacles (power lines, towers, turbines).
BIRD STRIKE INDICATOR (bsi)
The Bird Strike Indicator (BSI) is an automated, cost-effective tool for continuous detection and recording of bird collisions on power and communication lines.
ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS & INSIGHTS
RAPTORS ON THE LINE
An EDM International documentary short film examining avian electrocution on power infrastructure.
COLLISION
An EDM International documentary short film examining avian collision with power infrastructure.