WIMBY - Wind In My Backyard: Using holistic modelling tools to advance social awareness and engagement on large wind power installations in the EU.
Abstract
While wind power is one of the fastest growing, most mature and cost-competitive renewable energy technologies, its further adoption faces significant challenges due to the reluctance to accept it by multiple societal actors. Factors such as restrictive regulation, disinformation, and misinformation as well as concerns about changes to landscape scenicness, negative impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems and health impede the deployment of new wind power installations, even in locations with favorable wind power integration conditions. To reverse this situation and contribute to the decarbonization strategy of the EU, WIMBY aims at translating the results of cutting-edge in-depth models to assess potentials for development, impacts, conflicts and synergies of wind power into useful information for stakeholders to foster their societal engagement towards an extensive adoption of wind power. The project will merge high resolution spatially explicit techno-economic models of wind power potential development under multiple regulatory frameworks with models to assess environmental and health impacts, as well as with models to determine potential synergies in ecosystems. For areas and communities with potential for development of on-shore and off-shore wind power, we will conduct complementarity assessments and benchmarking of alternative designs of wind-parks and other renewable energy technologies for electricity generation, such as solar photovoltaic and biomass.
windpower landuse social impact ecological consequences techno-economic analysis
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Project staff
Christian Mikovits
Dr. Christian Mikovits MMSc.
christian.mikovits@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73119
BOKU Project Leader
01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025
Elias Florian Weinberger
Elias Florian Weinberger B.Sc.
elias.weinberger@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.02.2024 - 30.06.2024
Thomas Öberseder
Mag. Thomas Öberseder
thomas.oeberseder@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.04.2023 - 31.12.2025