Visibility analysis and visibility software for the optimisation of wind farm design

Manchado, Cristina; Otero, César; Jáuregui, Valentín Gómez; Arias, Rubén; Bruschi, Viola María; Cendrero, Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2013.05.026

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“…This impact is felt also in urban areas and areas of cultural value [1,2,4,20,22,31] (Fig. 5), and in particular is relevant for the areas located at the boundaries of towns of the highest development potential (land available for construction purposes) [3,5,40].…”

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Consistency of the Wind Power Industry, Including the Process of Sustainable Planning and Space Management

Malczyk¹

2016

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Consistency of the Wind Power Industry, Including the Process of Sustainable Planning and Space Management

Malczyk¹

2016

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…However, local opposition to wind farms may arise depending on the wind farm location and the relatively closeness of WTs to human settlements, rural and/or urban zones. Visual Impact Assessments (VIA) [109][110][111][112][113] essentially consist in documenting the baseline conditions of the potential site, perform accurate visualizations of the proposed wind farm layout with a photo simulation or a three-dimensional planning software, and analyze the changes compared to the baseline situation. The metrics used within the VIA process includes a measure of the visual contrast that WTs introduce to the landscape.…”

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“…However, models and methods for visibility analysis are presented in [109,110]. A conceptual model for assessing visual effects can be described as a procedure that calculates shadow flicker for both sun and moon induced exposure on the entire neighboring of the wind farm based on the actual location of the WTs and all other factors as described in Section 2.2.3.…”

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A Review of Methodological Approaches for the Design and Optimization of Wind Farms

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This article presents a review of the state of the art of the Wind Farm Design and Optimization (WFDO) problem. The WFDO problem refers to a set of advanced planning actions needed to extremize the performance of wind farms, which may be composed of a few individual Wind Turbines (WTs) up to thousands of WTs. The WFDO problem has been investigated in different scenarios, with substantial differences in main objectives, modelling assumptions, constraints, and numerical solution methods. The aim of this paper is: (1) to present an exhaustive survey of the literature covering the full span of the subject, an analysis of the state-of-the-art models describing the performance of wind farms as well as its extensions, and the numerical approaches used to solve the problem; (2) to provide an overview of the available knowledge and recent progress in the application of such strategies to real onshore and offshore wind farms; and (3) to propose a comprehensive agenda for future research. OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2014, 7 6931

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“…The results show the relationship between the number of wind turbines and the visual impact index values. Manchado et al [16] use a GIS to determination potentially suitable areas for the installation of new wind farms, taking into account the visibility assessment. A whole geographic area is analyzed in order to identify the zones where the new wind farm has lower visibility from population nuclei.…”

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“…Only a few works [15,16] describe the VIA, for new facilities, over a whole area in order to select the locations with lower visual impact.…”

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Site selection for new PV power plants based on their observability

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a b s t r a c tDespite the advantages that power plants based on renewable energies offer, there are some restrictions to the social acceptance of these facilities. One of these restrictions is the visual impact that large power plants may generate on people. This paper presents a new methodology for ranking the feasible places in a zone for the construction of new photovoltaic (PV) power plants according to their visibility. The methodology is based on the fuzzy viewshed and the distance decay methods, which enable to calculate the maximum number of hours in a mean day in which the new PV plant may be viewed by each possible observer. This number is related to the inhabitants in the zone, the size of the plant, the possible observers from paths and roads, and their distance to the PV plant. The proposed methodology is implemented in a Geographical Information System which allows the presentation of visual results that help to identify the best areas in the zone under study. This methodology can be useful to local authorities who have to authorize the installation of the new power plant, or investors who are trying to find the best locations from the point of view of visual impact.

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Visibility analysis and visibility software for the optimisation of wind farm design

Cited by 33 publications

References 15 publications

Consistency of the Wind Power Industry, Including the Process of Sustainable Planning and Space Management

Consistency of the Wind Power Industry, Including the Process of Sustainable Planning and Space Management

A Review of Methodological Approaches for the Design and Optimization of Wind Farms

Site selection for new PV power plants based on their observability

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