Strategic impact management of wind power projects

Lima, Fatima; Ferreira, Paula Varandas; Vieira, Filipa Dionísio

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2013.04.010

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“…The output power of a turbine is the function of the density of the air, the area swept by the turbine blades, and the cube of the wind speed [7]. The primary environmental issues related to wind turbine usage include wildlife safety, bio-system disturbance, noise, visual pollution, electromagnetic interference, and local climate change [8,9]. These issues can be grouped into ecological effects, impacts on humans, and climate-related issues [10,11].…”

Section: Wind Energy Induced Environmental Issuesmentioning

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Environmental issues associated with wind energy – A review

et al. 2015

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a b s t r a c tRecognized as one of the most mature renewable energy technologies, wind energy has been developing rapidly in recent years. Many countries have shown interest in utilizing wind power, but they are concerned about the environmental impacts of the wind farms. The continuous growth of the wind energy industry in many parts of the world, especially in some developing countries and ecologically vulnerable regions, necessitates a comprehensive understanding of wind farm induced environmental impacts. The environmental issues caused by wind farms were reviewed in this paper by summarizing existing studies. Available mitigation measures to minimize these adverse environmental impacts were discussed in this document. The intention of this paper is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge about environmental issues associated with wind energy development as well as strategies to mitigate environmental impacts to wind energy planners and developers.

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Section: Wind Energy Induced Environmental Issuesmentioning

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Environmental issues associated with wind energy – A review

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“…Secondly, an equally important focus in the literature has been the role IA can play in mitigating adverse impacts. The nature of a project's impact on wildlife is highly dependent on the project's design, including the size and micro-siting of the turbines [9,39]. Mandatory conditions and robust guidelines on mitigation issues have been shown to be critical to ensuring the effectiveness of impact assessments in avoiding adverse environmental impacts [1].…”

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Key criteria for sustainable wind energy planning—lessons from an institutional perspective on the impact assessment literature

Thygesen

Agarwal

2014

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Citation for the version of the work held in 'OpenAIR@RGU"NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, [VOL 39, November 2014 Abstract 1 : An increasing number of researchers stress the importance of the national planning institution's role with respect to promoting an "effective" decision-making process in terms of bringing about sustainable energy. Impact assessment (IA) procedures are seen as having strong potential in supporting environmentally conscious energy production. This article discusses criteria for sustainable wind power planning and compares the centralised planning systems for wind energy in two countries -Norway and Scotland -as illustrating cases. We ask the following: What key criteria should be present to secure sustainable wind energy planning, and what are the critical institutional conditions to fulfil these criteria? A review of relevant IA literature reveals four key criteria for promoting sustainable wind planning: (i) clear and integrated political priorities, (ii) stakeholder involvement, (iii) strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and (iv) stringent permission and assessment requirements. We also determined that critical institutional conditions exist that effectively promote sustainable energy production: (a) coordinated energy policy institutions, (b) legitimate planning procedures, (c) that SEAs are followed in the decision-making process and (d) statutory planning regulations.

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“…Many studies have been conducted on installing wind energy in different terrains such as in urban environments [7,13], wind farms [14], and offshore [1,15]. However, there are several environmental issues also associated with energy such as ecological disturbance, wildlife safety, visual pollution, noise, electromagnetic interference, and local climate change [16][17][18]. Various measures have been taken by the countries to mitigate the adverse effect of different energy sources, and agreements and protocols had been instituted, such as Copenhagen Accord [19].…”

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Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Selecting Wind Energy Power Plant Locations

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In pursuit of green technology innovations, the energy industry is showing an interest in sustainable sources such as wind energy generation. The Saudi Arabian energy industry has a 2030 target to generate and transmit electricity to major customers nationwide and other neighboring Gulf countries. However, the selection of wind energy power plant locations is a concern because the decision process involves social, technological, economical, and environmental factors. The originality of this study lies in (1) proposing an integrated quantitative and qualitative multi-criteria decision making framework for selecting wind-energy power plant locations; (2) applying the proposed framework in the context of the energy industry in a gulf region country and investigating expert-based and entropy-based criterion weight assignments; (3) choosing five possible alternative wind energy power plant locations with 17 response criteria for each alternative to help decision makers identify the best possible alternative; and (4) establishing the superiority of one alternative over another (if it exists). The presented approach extends considerable support to the comparing and ranking of alternatives along with its validation and sensitivity analysis. Based on the proposed multi-criteria decision-making approach, an appropriate wind energy power plant location has been successfully selected among the five alternatives.

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Strategic impact management of wind power projects

Cited by 22 publications

References 7 publications

Environmental issues associated with wind energy – A review

Environmental issues associated with wind energy – A review

Key criteria for sustainable wind energy planning—lessons from an institutional perspective on the impact assessment literature

Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Selecting Wind Energy Power Plant Locations

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