Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar Series: Future Priorities for Wildlife & Wind Energy - Multi-stakeholder perspectives on challenges and opportunities

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Defenders of Wildlife hosted a free, nine-part webinar series, Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar Series: Considerations for Monitoring and Managing Impacts, between August and November 2020. All webinars were recorded and are available on Tethys.

Webinar #9: Future Priorities for Wildlife & Wind Energy: Multi-stakeholder perspectives on challenges and opportunities

The concluding webinar in this series featured a multi-stakeholder panel with a forward looking focus: what does evolving turbine technology, advancing deployment, and the climate crisis mean for the wind-wildlife regulatory landscape? What are the biggest challenges and priorities for this work given changing costs, electrification of the grid, and more aggressive state renewable portfolio standards? How is each sector preparing for the future (federal and state regulators, industry, researchers, etc.) to enable wildlife-responsible wind energy development at the pace and scale needed to meet our climate goals? These questions were informed by input from attendees, provided throughout the webinar series and through interaction with the expert panel.