Where should wind energy be located? A review of preferences and visualisation approaches for wind turbine locations

Koch, Pablo Alejandro Hevia; Ladenburg, Jacob

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2019.02.010

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“…In short, CE is an economic valuation technique that has been applied in the field of marketing since the early seventies. It has been used in more than ten published papers focusing on offshore costs of wind power, see [4,7,27] for specific reviews of SP wind power studies.…”

Section: Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Accordingly, the number of turbines per wind farm and the total number of farms correlate almost perfectly (14 wind farms × 49 wind turbines/wind farm = 686 turbines, 7 wind farms × 100 wind turbines/wind farm = 700 wind turbines, and 5 wind farms × 144 turbines/wind farm = 720 turbines). The visual impacts associated with the wind farms of different sizes at different distances were illustrated by generic [7] computer-based visualizations. These were created by a specialist consultancy company.…”

Section: Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…H2o: WTPPositive Perception < WTPNeutral Perception < WTPNegative Perception H21: WTPPositive Perception >< WTPNeutral Perception >< WTPNegative Perception Rejection of H2 suggests that there is no relation between prior perception of the visual impacts from offshore wind farms and the visualization guided preferences for reducing the visual impacts. Accordingly, the perceptions of the visual impacts from offshore wind farms seem to be updated by the use of visualizations, as argued in Hevia-Koch and Ladenburg [7].…”

Section: Theoretical Model Of the Link Between Prior Perceptions And mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As highlighted by Hevia-Koch and Ladenburg [7], the use of visualizations and the quality of those visualizations might be imperative for the validity of the estimated acceptance costs. The authors argue that unless the respondents have well updated prior information regarding the visual impacts of wind farms, they rely heavily on the use of visualizations in surveys.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Testing the Correlation between Prior Knowledge of - and Visualisation Guided WTPs for Reducing the Visual Impacts Visual from Offshore Wind Farms

Ladenburg¹

2020

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Visual external costs are significant elements in the cost-benefit analysis of wind farm locations. This has been demonstrated well in the literature. However, in the assessment of the visual costs, a large share of the earlier studies used no or only simplistic visualizations of the visual impacts at stake. The cost estimates thus rely on the respondents' ability to imagine the visual impacts associated with wind turbines of different sizes and at different locations. This has been argued to potentially reduce the validity of the visual cost estimates. The present paper analyzes whether respondents' prior perceptions of the visual impacts from offshore wind farms correlate with their stated preferences for reducing the same visual impacts from offshore wind farms, when presented with visualizations of the visual impacts. The results show that respondents who perceive offshore wind farms to have positive or neutral visual impacts express equally strong preferences and high positive willingness to pay for reducing visual impacts, compared to respondents who perceive the visual impacts to be negative. The information in the visualizations thus appears to have updated the prior perception of the visual impacts of offshore wind farms.

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Section: Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Model Of the Link Between Prior Perceptions And mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Testing the Correlation between Prior Knowledge of - and Visualisation Guided WTPs for Reducing the Visual Impacts Visual from Offshore Wind Farms

Ladenburg¹

2020

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“…Promoting renewable energy has recently become a global priority to fight climate change (Hevia-Koch & Ladenburg, 2019;Liebe & Dobers, 2019;Sharpton et al 2020). In particular, wind energy has been hailed as a promising clean energy technology for transition to post-fossil carbon-based societies (Caporale & De Lucia, 2015;Yuan et al, 2015;Hammami et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%