Pisces Conservation have many years' experience of ecological issues relating to power generation throughout the UK, Europe and the USA including:
- Entrainment and impingement, impacts on local fish / crustacean populations
- Environmental impact assessment for proposed biomass-fuelled stations on brownfield sites
- Phyto- and zoo-plankton monitoring and analysis
- Advice on BTA for industry
- Screening and protection of water intakes
- Heated effluent impacts
- Biofouling and biocide use
- Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD)
- Water use issues
- Acid rain
- Land take, habitat mitigation and restoration
- Effects of underwater structures, dams & weirs, and small hydro-electric plants
- Fly ash disposal
- Biological issues relating to cooling towers
- Eel monitoring for compliance with the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations, 2009
Related projects:
- (1) - Estuarine monitoring, Bristol Channel
- (8) - Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) feasibility studies
- (9) - Nuclear plant decommissioning
- (10) - Monitoring of mussel fouling threat
- (11) - Assessment of small hydro station ecology
- (12) - Ecological effects of renewable energy plants, USA
- (13) - Predicting impingement at small CCGT stations.
- (16) - Power plant issues in USA
- (17) - Modelling & predicting thermal effluent effects
- (23) - Intensive impingement & entrainment studies
- (30) - Impingement, foam production & thermal plumes
- (42) - Benthic sampling, Blyth, Northumberland
- (44) - Fish impingement monitoring, Grain, Kent
- (45) - Eel & elver monitoring
- Are coastal power stations affecting fish populations?
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