%0 Journal Article
%A Weinand, Jann Michael
%A Naber, Elias
%A McKenna, Russell
%A Lehmann, Paul
%A Kotzur, Leander
%A Stolten, Detlef
%T Historic drivers of onshore wind power siting and inevitable future trade-offs
%J Environmental research letters
%V 17
%N 7
%@ 1748-9318
%C Bristol
%I IOP Publ.
%M FZJ-2022-02773
%P 074018 -
%D 2022
%X The required acceleration of onshore wind deployment requires the consideration of both economic and social criteria. With a spatially explicit analysis of the validated European turbine stock, we show that historical siting focused on cost-effectiveness of turbines and minimization of local disamenities, resulting in substantial regional inequalities. A multi-criteria turbine allocation approach demonstrates in 180 different scenarios that strong trade-offs have to be made in the future expansion by 2050. The sites of additional onshore wind turbines can be associated with up to 43% lower costs on average, up to 42% higher regional equality, or up to 93% less affected population than at existing turbine locations. Depending on the capacity generation target, repowering decisions and spatial scale for siting, the mean costs increase by at least 18% if the affected population is minimized — even more so if regional equality is maximized. Meaningful regulations that compensate the affected regions for neglecting one of the criteria are urgently needed.
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000816870700001
%R 10.1088/1748-9326/ac7603
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/908699