The Politics of Wind: A state level analysis of political party impact on wind energy development in the United States

Dorrell, John; Lee, Keunjae

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101602

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“…There are plenty of chances for wind energy growth worldwide. There is growing demand for renewable energy [38][39][40], energy protection [41], energy sector reforms [42,43], and environmental quality [38,41], as cross-cutting opportunities. The primary obstacles to wind energy development are related to site suitability and technical constraints [44].…”

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Geospatial Analysis of Wind Energy Siting Suitability in the East African Community

Bimenyimana,

Wang,

Asemota

et al. 2024

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Site investigation is essential for developing and constructing a dependable and effective wind engineering project. Also, the kinetic energy of moving air, used to drive a wind turbine, produces electricity. Having seen the shortage of previous studies on wind energy sites’ suitability across Africa and having read about the abundance of untapped wind energy resources in the East African region, this paper used Geographical Information System (GIS), multi-criteria, and Analytic Hierarchy techniques to provide a geospatial analysis of wind energy technology siting suitability in Eastern African Community Countries. Different data were acquired and processed from numerous open-access databases (Global Wind atlas, Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), African Geoportal, East African community website, and Energy data Info.org). The results reveal Kenya has large parts of its land areas highly appropriate for wind energy siting (15.26%) and 1.55% of its land classified as unsuitable for wind energy generation. The rates of suitability and unsuitability were respectively 26.57% and 4.87% for Burundi, 20.6% and 10.21% for Rwanda, 20.39% and 10.44% for Tanzania, and 4.65% and 27.15% for South Sudan. The findings also show that East Africa exhibits moderate levels of wind energy siting suitability, with an estimated average of around 37.27% of its land area moderately suitable for wind energy technology installation, covering thousands of square kilometers. The study is advantageous to academia and industry-related personnel engaged in renewable energy-related activities in other African countries with similar topographies.

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Geospatial Analysis of Wind Energy Siting Suitability in the East African Community

Bimenyimana,

Wang,

Asemota

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…Besides the studies of wind power focusing on the resources, scholars have studied the role of the market in wind power development; however, the conclusions of Chinese scholars and foreign scholars are not consistent. Scholars believed that the economic factor was an important factor in attracting wind power investment because a better economy and higher income are more able to afford a higher price for wind power and, therefore in these places higher demand for wind power (Dorrell & Lee, 2020). Biresselioglu et al (2016) also mentioned this point in their study on wind power construction influencing factors in 26 OECD countries.…”

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Assessing the impact of Wind Power Investment Utilizing Electricity

Qiao

Lin

2023

Journal of Global Information Management

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China has been actively developing wind power for several decades, and its installed capacity has grown rapidly, which can be largely attributed to the favorable policy support and subsidies provided to wind power investments. However, China's resource-based strategy for wind power layout may not be fully taking into account the information on electricity demand. Therefore, the authors aim to identify the key factors driving the regional distribution of wind power in China, with a particular focus on the relationship between wind farm investments and local electricity demand. The study reveals that, compared to earlier stages of development, wind power installation growth is now more concentrated in regions with high electricity demand rather than just in resource-rich areas. Moreover, the model results demonstrate that the leading effect of demand on wind investment is more pronounced in resource-rich regions than in other areas. Demand information and mechanism analysis highlight the significant role of zoning policies in moderating the impact of demand on wind power siting and investment.

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“…Globally, extensive opportunities exist for the development of wind energy. In literature, growing energy demand (Adaramola, 2017;Ouedraogo, 2019;Oyedepo et al, 2012;Peidong et al, 2009;Zafar, 2020), energy security (Balat, 2005;Hamed et al, 2012;Peidong et al, 2009;Van Kooten and Timilsina, 2008), energy sector reforms (Dorrell and Lee, 2020;Chaurasiya et al, 2019;Zhang, 2019;Zhang et al, 2016), and environmental quality (Adaramola, 2017;Chaurasiya et al, 2019;Hamed et al, 2012;Njoh et al, 2019;Ortega-Izquierdo and del Rı´o, 2020;Zafar, 2020) are the cross-cutting opportunities. We note that the main challenges to wind energy development relate to technical limitations (Adaramola, et al 2014;Berrezzek et al, 2019;Mustapa et al, 2010;Paul et al, 2012), finance and cost (Bos et al, 2018;Mustapa et al,2010;Ouedraogo, 2019;Ohunakin et al, 2013;Pueyo;2018;Rehmatulla et al, 2017), infrastructure (Bos et al, 2018;Dio´genes et al, 2020;Chaurasiya et al, 2019;Hamed et al, 2012;Ouedraogo, 2019), and unsupportive policies (Boie et al, 2016;Dio´genes et al, 2020;Pueyo, 2018).…”

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“…Supportive energy policies, strategic energy sector plans, and energy infrastructure investments are an integral part of any economic development frameworks (Chaurasiya et al, 2019;Dio´genes et al, 2020;Dorrell and Lee, 2020;Okello et al, 2013;Peidong et al, 2009;Zhang, 2019). Reforms in Uganda's energy sector can be traced in the early 2000s when the Energy policy for Uganda 2002 was developed to ''meet the energy needs of the population for social and economic development in an environmentally sustainable manner.''…”

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“…Empirical evidence shows that deliberate wind energy policies are necessary conditions for the exploitation of wind resources. Deliberate generation incentives such as Feed-in Tariffs (Mendonc xa and Jacobs, 2009), Quota Obligations, Feed-in Premiums, and power purchase agreements (Abdmouleh et al, 2015;Chaurasiya et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2014), renewable portfolio standards (Dorrell and Lee, 2020), and ''incentivized'' wind energy targets (Zhang, 2019) impel wind energy investment and development. Further empirical works show that unsupportive government policies (Dio´genes et al, 2020), incoherent policies (Peidong et al, 2009), outdated national policies (Njoh et al, 2019), regulatory uncertainty (Barradale, 2010;Pueyo, 2018), and weak institutional frameworks (Ouedraogo, 2019), have, in these independent studies, undermined either wind and or renewable energy development.…”

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Assessing wind energy development in Uganda: Opportunities and challenges

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In this paper, we utilize a systematic review to assess opportunities and challenges in wind energy development in Uganda. Apart from being an environmentally friendly and renewable energy resource, development of wind energy could boosts economic growth and creates jobs. For Uganda, rising energy demand, need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and increasing electricity access to rural areas, emerge as rational opportunities to invest in wind energy. The main obstacles to wind energy development in Uganda are insufficient wind resource data, high initial investment cost, inadequate research and development, weak infrastructure, and unsupportive policies. For policy, comprehensive wind resource assessment, energy infrastructure investment, financial de-risking, capacity building, and deliberate wind power policy incentives could accelerate wind energy development and consequently contribute to the country’s energy security.

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The Politics of Wind: A state level analysis of political party impact on wind energy development in the United States

Cited by 9 publications

References 58 publications

Geospatial Analysis of Wind Energy Siting Suitability in the East African Community

Geospatial Analysis of Wind Energy Siting Suitability in the East African Community

Assessing the impact of Wind Power Investment Utilizing Electricity

Assessing wind energy development in Uganda: Opportunities and challenges

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