IRIDA brings AI bird protection to offshore wind in South Korea with the ANMA project
IRIDA AI Technologies will deliver 38 Bird Protect™ Offshore systems to the ANMA offshore wind farm in South Korea. The client is the Coast and Ocean Technology Research Institute (COTRI), and the contract is worth more than €2.05 million.
The 532 MW ANMA project is developed by Equis, with Siemens Gamesa 14 MW turbines, about 30 km off the coast of Yeonggwang in South Jeolla (Jeonnam). COTRI describes the wider Jeonnam offshore complex as the largest planned offshore wind complex in the world. Protecting migratory and seabirds at this scale calls for detection that works at long range, day and night, and at sea.
Bird Protect™ Offshore was built for these conditions. It provides long-range detection and collision-risk mitigation for offshore wind, day and night, and it links to the turbines through Shutdown on Demand, so turbines are curtailed only when a bird is at real risk.
The contract marks IRIDA's entry into South Korea and builds on its work in Japan. A Bird Protect™ Environmental system is already installed at ANMA and collecting bird activity data. It is the first bird monitoring system ever installed in South Korea, and its data will support the 38 Bird Protect™ Offshore systems.
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About IRIDA AI Technologies: an Athens-based green-tech company that protects birds, bats and forests at wind farms with AI. Its Bird Protect™, Bat Protect™ and Forest Protect™ systems detect wildlife and wildfire in real time and trigger automated turbine responses through Shutdown on Demand. IRIDA has 643 systems installed and contracted at 93 wind farms in 12 countries on 2 continents. Protecting biodiversity. Enabling wind energy.
