Entergy Protects Endangered Whooping Cranes While Increasing Reliability for Customers
Entergy is deploying bird flight diverters on transmission lines across Louisiana in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and FulcrumAir, aiming to protect endangered whooping cranes while improving grid reliability. The utility operates more than 1,000 miles of transmission lines and nearly 3,500 miles of distribution lines in parishes where breeding pairs of whooping cranes live year-round; the global crane population now tops 800 birds, up from just 21 in the early 1940s. Diverters are installed with FulcrumAir's LineFly robotic tool deployed by drone, which can attach them to energized lines and removes the need for helicopter-based crews.
Key figures
- Whooping crane population current
- over 800
- Whooping crane population early 1940s
- 21
- Distribution lines in crane habitat miles
- nearly 3,500
- Transmission lines in crane habitat miles
- more than 1,000
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