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McKenna, R., Weinand, J. M., Mulalic, I., Petrović, S., Mainzer, K., Preis, Tobias and Moat, Helen Susannah (2021) Scenicness assessment of onshore wind sites with geotagged photographs and impacts on approval and cost-efficiency. Nature Energy, 6 . pp. 663-672. doi:10.1038/s41560-021-00842-5 ISSN 2058-7546.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00842-5
Abstract
Cost-efficiency and public acceptance are competing objectives for onshore wind locations. The impact of ‘scenicness’ on these two objectives has been difficult to quantify for wind projects. We analyse the link between economic wind resources and beautiful landscapes with over 1.5 million ‘scenicness’ ratings of around 200,000 geotagged photographs from across Great Britain. We find evidence that planning applications for onshore wind are more likely to be rejected when proposed in more scenic areas. Compared to the technical potential of onshore wind of 1,700 TWh at a total cost of £280 billion, removing the 10% most scenic areas implies about 18% lower generation potential and 8–26% higher costs. We also consider connection distances to the nearest electricity network transformer, showing that the connection costs constitute up to half of the total costs. The results provide a quantitative framework for researchers and policymakers to consider the trade-offs between cost-efficiency and public acceptance for onshore wind.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Offshore wind power plants , Offshore wind power plants -- Economic aspects, Offshore wind power plants -- Social aspects, Energy policy -- Environmental aspects | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Energy | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2058-7546 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 3 June 2021 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 663-672 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41560-021-00842-5 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Nature Energy. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00842-5 | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 June 2021 | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 December 2021 | ||||||||||||
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