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The Implications of Landscape Visual Impact on Future Highly Renewable Power Systems: A Case Study for Great Britain.
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Power Systems; Jul2022, Vol. 37 Issue 4, p3311-3320, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Recent long term planning studies have demonstrated the important role of variable renewables (VRE) in decarbonising our energy system. However, cost-optimising models do not capture the visual impact of VREs on the landscape which can act to undermine their public acceptability. Here, we use crowd-sourced scenicness data to derive spatially explicit wind energy capacity potentials for three scenarios of public sensitivity to this visual impact. We then use these scenarios in a cost-optimising model of Great Britain's power system to assess their impact on the cost and design of the electricity system in 2050. Our results show that total system costs can increase by up to 14.2% when public sensitivity to visual impact is high compared to low. It is thus essential for policy makers to consider these cost implications and to find mechanisms to ameliorate the visual impact of onshore wind in local communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- STRATEGIC planning
WIND power
GEOGRAPHIC information systems
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08858950
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 157551947
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2020.2992061