Overview
- The Zeeuwse omgevingsdienst (RUD) has ordered twenty of the park’s 31 turbines to remain stopped during daytime for three months and tied full restart to installation of bird-detection systems.
- The decision follows repeated sea-eagle collisions, including the April death of a chick born in the nearby Markiezaat that struck a turbine.
- Operators say they will install camera-based systems that identify large birds and temporarily shut turbines when animals enter a set detection radius.
- The pause cuts generation from a park that supplies about 55,000 households and will impose short-term costs and operational work for the owners during installation.
- Conservationists welcomed the move as protection for a strictly protected species and as a potential precedent for nationwide rules, since the Netherlands currently lacks broad mandatory detection requirements.