Wind turbines location: How many and how far?

Betakova, Vendula; Vojar, Jiří; Sklenička, Petr

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.04.060

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“…Other studies have confirmed that WTs are perceived very negatively in aesthetically valuable and natural landscapes [25][26][27], as opposed to landscapes already more markedly influenced by human activities. Nevertheless, planning organizations and development companies continue to attempt to construct WTs in these valuable landscapes, predominantly in mountain and coastal areas with a very marked morphology and rich natural cover.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…A similar divergence in the perception of WTs was demonstrated in a study on a planned wind park in the Wadden Sea [28]. It is apparent that assessments of the suitability of a landscape for the placement of WTs are not to be ignored and should form an integral part of the decisionmaking process [25,27].…”

Section: Importance Of Educational Orientation For Plannersmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Yes, No. The distance of 10 km was set on the basis of previous experience as a level at which a WT still has an impact on the aesthetic evaluation of a landscape [25,32]. In order to prevent any preliminary influence on the respondents' ratings, these questions were presented only after they had rated the set of images.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second group should include inhabitants of indirectly affected areas between ca 1.5 and 10 km distant. This group is affected only by the visual impacts of WTs [25,32]. According to several studies, place attachment has considerable influence on perception [17][18][19].…”

Section: Public Opposition To/acceptance Of Wind Parksmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How education orientation affects attitudes toward wind energy and wind farms: implications for the planning process

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Background: Three groups of stakeholders are mainly involved in the planning, assessment, and approval processes for wind parks: the planners, the public, and the responsible public authorities. These groups have varying aims, and there are various ways of looking at proposals to set up a wind park. In particular, the viewpoints of planners and government officers are likely to differ. Planners are likely to focus on technical aspects of a wind farm project, while the public authorities are likely to be oriented toward environmental considerations. Methods: The effect of respondents' characteristics on landscape perception was analysed using generalized linear mixed models (GLMM). Set of various landscape images with and without wind turbines (WTs) was evaluated on a 15-points scale. The evaluation was accomplished with additional questions about general attitude toward wind energy, willingness to live close to WTs and presence of WTs near respondents´homes.

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“…In that case, we might expect that respondents have the visual impacts at first hand and therefore have good priors to state fair and just preferences. Due to the fact that visual impacts have been shown to be significant drivers for the preferences regarding wind turbines in both economic (Krueger et al, 2011;Ladenburg and Dubgaard, 2007;Landry et al, 2012); and non-economic studies (Betakova et al, 2015;Maehr et al, 2015;Palmer, 2015), it is important not to ignore the potential impact that these dimensions might produce when creating surveys that elicit preferences for wind energy.…”

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Estimating Preferences for Wind Turbine Locations - A Critical Review of Visualisation Approaches

Koch

Ladenburg

2016

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As the amount of wind energy installed capacity keeps growing, in Europe and the world in general, the siting of wind projects near population or recreational centres becomes a frequent possibility. Therefore, it is of high interest for policy makers and developers to be able to quantify the effect of wind projects on public acceptance.Currently, one of the main drivers for acceptance of wind turbines by the public is their level of visual impacts. While recent studies have focused on estimating the welfare loss of visual impacts from wind turbines, a large share of the applied studies have used no or very simple visualisation of the actual visual impacts at stake. These studies thus rely on the cognitive skills of the respondents to imagine wind turbines of different sizes and locations; and on the prior experience people have had with wind turbines.By extending the economic model of perceived quality developed by Blomquist and Whitehead (1998), this paper provides a theoretical argument for the need of visualisations when describing valuation scenarios for respondents, as well as the relevance to correctly define the amount of attributes of the good to be represented on the visualisation, and which visualisation techniques to utilise. Afterwards, we propose a framework for classifying different visualisation types and utilise it to classify recent studies regarding wind turbines acceptance, highlighting the lack of visualisations in recent studies, as well as the need to raise the bar on scenario descriptions for wind turbine visual impacts valuation.

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Von Konflikt und Dialog: Manifestationen der Energiewende in den Transformationsfeldern Netzausbau, Biogas und Windkraft

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Warode

Reinermann

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RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft

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Wind turbines location: How many and how far?

Cited by 102 publications

References 31 publications

How education orientation affects attitudes toward wind energy and wind farms: implications for the planning process

How education orientation affects attitudes toward wind energy and wind farms: implications for the planning process

Estimating Preferences for Wind Turbine Locations - A Critical Review of Visualisation Approaches

Von Konflikt und Dialog: Manifestationen der Energiewende in den Transformationsfeldern Netzausbau, Biogas und Windkraft

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