Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/ac7603 |
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| Title (Primary) | Historic drivers of onshore wind power siting and inevitable future trade-offs |
| Author | Weinand, J.M.; Naber, E.; McKenna, R.; Lehmann, P.; Kotzur, L.; Stolten, D. |
| Source Titel | Environmental Research Letters |
| Year | 2022 |
| Department | OEKON |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Page From | art. 074018 |
| Language | englisch |
| Topic | T5 Future Landscapes |
| Supplements | Supplement 1 |
| Keywords | disamenities; regional equality; cost effectiveness; European turbine stock; multi-criteria; future expansion; 2050 scenarios |
| Abstract | The required acceleration of onshore wind deployment requires the consideration of both economic and social criteria. With a spatially explicit analysis of the validated European turbine stock, we show that historical siting focused on cost-effectiveness of turbines and minimization of local disamenities, resulting in substantial regional inequalities. A multi-criteria turbine allocation approach demonstrates in 180 different scenarios that strong trade-offs have to be made in the future expansion by 2050. The sites of additional onshore wind turbines can be associated with up to 43% lower costs on average, up to 42% higher regional equality, or up to 93% less affected population than at existing turbine locations. Depending on the capacity generation target, repowering decisions and spatial scale for siting, the mean costs increase by at least 18% if the affected population is minimized – even more so if regional equality is maximized. Meaningful regulations that compensate the affected regions for neglecting one of the criteria are urgently needed. |
| Weinand, J.M., Naber, E., McKenna, R., Lehmann, P., Kotzur, L., Stolten, D. (2022): Historic drivers of onshore wind power siting and inevitable future trade-offs Environ. Res. Lett. 17 (7), art. 074018 10.1088/1748-9326/ac7603 |
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