WIMBY - Wind In My Backyard: Using holistic modelling tools to advance social awareness and engagement on large wind power installations in the EU. TP Visualisation and social acceptance
Subproject of:
WIMBY - Wind In My Backyard: Using holistic modelling tools to advance social awareness and engagement on large wind power installations in the EU. (WIMBY)
- Project Leader
- Schauppenlehner Thomas, BOKU Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.01.2023-31.12.2025
- Programme:
- Horizon Europe - Global Challenges - Research & Innovation Action (RIA)
- EU-Project Instruments
- Collaborative Project
- Type of Research
- Applied Research
- Staff
- Bittner Karl, Project Staff
- Baumgartinger-Seiringer Mathias, Project Staff
- BOKU Research Units
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Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning
- Funded by
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Commission of the European Communities, Rue de la Loi, Brussels, European Union
- 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.
- Keywords
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Augmented reality;
Computer animation;
Virtual reality;
Data science;
Visualisation;
Geoinformatics;
Renewable energy;
Geoinformatics;
Landscape planning;
Cartography;
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Renewable energy;
Geographic Information systems;
Land use conficts;
social acceptance;
Virtual reality and immersion;
Wind power;
3D visualisation;
