TY  - JOUR
AU  - Weinand, Jann Michael
AU  - Naber, Elias
AU  - McKenna, Russell
AU  - Lehmann, Paul
AU  - Kotzur, Leander
AU  - Stolten, Detlef
TI  - Historic drivers of onshore wind power siting and inevitable future trade-offs
JO  - Environmental research letters
VL  - 17
IS  - 7
SN  - 1748-9318
CY  - Bristol
PB  - IOP Publ.
M1  - FZJ-2022-02773
SP  - 074018 -
PY  - 2022
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000816870700001
DO  - DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ac7603
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/908699
ER  -