scholarly journals Mitigating biodiversity impacts associated with solar and wind energy development: guidelines for project developers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Bennun ◽  
J. van Bochove ◽  
C. Ng ◽  
C. Fletcher ◽  
D. Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Industrial Systems ◽  
Energy Demands ◽  
Mitigation Hierarchy ◽  
Practical Support ◽  
Development Life Cycle ◽  
Wind Energy Development

Achieving a climate-resilient future requires rapid, sustained and far-reaching transformations in energy, land-use, infrastructure and industrial systems. Large-scale expansion of renewable energy can play a critical role in meeting the world’s growing energy demands and in the fight against climate change. However, even ‘clean’ energy sources can have significant unintended impacts on the environment. The guidelines aim to provide practical support for solar and wind energy developments by effectively managing risks and improving overall outcomes related to biodiversity and ecosystem services. They are industry-focused and can be applied across the whole project development life cycle, from early planning through to decommissioning and repowering, using the mitigation hierarchy as a clear framework for planning and implementation. The mitigation hierarchy is applied to direct, indirect and cumulative impacts.

scholarly journals System Dynamics Simulation of Large-Scale Generation System for Designing Wind Power Policy in China

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linna Hou
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Generation System ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency

This paper focuses on the impacts of renewable energy policy on a large-scale power generation system, including thermal power, hydropower, and wind power generation. As one of the most important clean energy, wind energy has been rapidly developed in the world. But in recent years there is a serious waste of wind power equipment and investment in China leading to many problems in the industry from wind power planning to its integration. One way overcoming the difficulty is to analyze the influence of wind power policy on a generation system. This paper builds a system dynamics (SD) model of energy generation to simulate the results of wind energy generation policies based on a complex system. And scenario analysis method is used to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of these policies. The case study shows that the combinations of lower portfolio goal and higher benchmark price and those of higher portfolio goal and lower benchmark price have large differences in both effectiveness and efficiency. On the other hand, the combinations of uniformly lower or higher portfolio goal and benchmark price have similar efficiency, but different effectiveness. Finally, an optimal policy combination can be chosen on the basis of policy analysis in the large-scale power system.

Land grabbing or value grabbing? Land rent and wind energy in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca

2021 ◽  
pp. 102452942110189
Author(s):  
Lourdes Alonso Serna
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Land Grabbing ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
Isthmus Of Tehuantepec ◽  
Commodification Of Nature ◽  
Wind Energy Development

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca is the first region in Mexico with a large-scale wind energy development. The region holds 60% of the country’s installed capacity, but the new infrastructure has faced opposition from sectors of the local population concerned about wind farms’ social and environmental impacts. The opposition and ensuing conflicts have been widely studied; some of these studies have framed wind energy as part of the recent cycle of land grabbing. Nevertheless, this literature has overlooked landholders’ acceptance of wind energy. This paper aims to address this gap and argues that the main driver of the land grabbing process is land rent. The paper draws on recent insights from political ecology that highlight that the commodification of nature is predicated on rent. The paper uses the notion of value grabbing to look at the social struggles over property rights in the Isthmus and the conflicts for the increase and distribution of rents from wind energy.

scholarly journals Wind Energy in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Danur Lambang Pristiandaru ◽  
Nugroho Agung Pambudi
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Average Speed ◽  
Remote Locations ◽  
Energy Demands ◽  
The Status ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Wind Energy Systems

Like many countries, an increase in population and economic growth has made Indonesia’s energy demands significantly raise. By 2050, Indonesia hopes to have 31% of its energy supply met by tapping on renewable energy, like the wind which can yield up to 16.7% of the power. However, the development of wind energy in Indonesia is still low. One underlying reason is the average speed of wind in Indonesia quite low, making it very difficult to produce energy on a large scale. Many of Indonesia’s current wind energy systems installed in remote locations, often as part of a development or research project in stand-alone or hybrid systems. These partly caused by a lack of confidence in wind power and not being sure of where could be the best locations for wind plants. This paper studies the status of wind energy in Indonesia, the challenges that it faces and future policies.Keywords: wind energy, Indonesia, potential, future policy

Development Status, Restricting Factors and Strategies for China's Wind Power Industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 953-954 ◽  
pp. 348-352
Author(s):  
Li Sun ◽  
Sheng Yue Hao ◽  
Jian Ge Li ◽  
Zeng Hong Wu
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Energy Strategy ◽  
Development Status ◽  
Wind Energy Development ◽  
Wind Energy Resources

The development of new and renewable energy is the key to Chinas future energy strategy. The development of wind energy resources has been drawing our attention because of its unique advantages and it grew rapidly recently. At present, Chinas wind energy industry has come into large-scale stage of rapid development and has made remarkable achievements while it also faces great challenges. Based on the overview of wind energy resources and its development status in China, the problems and restrictive factors of Chinas wind energy industry were analyzed in this paper, and its proper strategies for further wind energy development were discussed also.

Using a Community Vote for Wind Energy Development Decision-Making in King Island, Tasmania

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
R.M. Colvin ◽  
G. Bradd Witt ◽  
Justine Lacey
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Practice Approach ◽  
Engagement Process ◽  
Wind Energy Development ◽  
Social Licence To Operate

In 2012, a large scale wind energy project was proposed for development in King Island, Tasmania, Australia. The project proponents adopted what they described as a ‘best practice’ approach to community engagement; an approach expected to achieve positive outcomes for developer and community by maximising community involvement in decision-making, limiting social conflict, and enhancing the potential of achieving the social licence to operate. Despite this, the community experience during the time of the proposal was one of conflict and distress, and the proposal was eventually cancelled due to exogenous economic factors. This case study explores a key element of the engagement process—holding a community vote—that caused significant problems for people and process. The vote appeared to be a democratic means to facilitate community empowerment in the decision-making process. However, in this study, we show that the vote resulted in an increase in conflict and polarisation, challenged the legitimacy of the consultative process and credibility of the proponents, and ultimately led to legal actions taken by opponents against the proponent. Factors including voter eligibility, the benchmark for success of the vote, campaigning, and responses to the outcome of the vote are examined to demonstrate the complexity of decision-making for renewable energy and land use change more generally.

scholarly journals Transmission Design and Analysis for Large-Scale Offshore Wind Energy Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elpiniki Apostolaki-Iosifidou ◽  
Regina Mccormack ◽  
Willett Kempton ◽  
Paul Mccoy ◽  
Deniz Ozkan
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Offshore Wind Energy ◽  
Transmission Design ◽  
Wind Energy Development

scholarly journals Improving Design by Partnering in Engineering–Procurement–Construction (EPC) Hydropower Projects: A Case Study of a Large-Scale Hydropower Project in China

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 3410
Author(s):  
Yang Liu ◽  
Wenzhe Tang ◽  
Colin F. Duffield ◽  
Felix Kin Peng Hui ◽  
Lihai Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Design Management ◽  
Hydropower Project ◽  
Project Outcomes ◽  
Term Energy

Hydropower, as a renewable energy resource, has become an important way to fit for Chinese long-term energy policy of energy transformation. Engineering–procurement–construction (EPC) has been increasingly adopted for improving hydropower project delivery efficiency in the utilization of water resources and generation of clean energy, where design plays a critical role in project success. Existing studies advocate the need to use partnering for better solutions to designs in EPC hydropower projects. However, there is a lack of a theoretical framework to systematically address design-related issues considering different participants’ interactions. This study coherently examined the causal relationships among partnering, design management, design capability, and EPC hydropower project performance by establishing and validating a conceptual model, with the support of data collected from a large-scale EPC hydropower project. Path analysis reveals that partnering can directly promote design management and design capability and exert an effect on design capability through enhancing design management, thereby achieving better hydropower project outcomes. This study’s contribution lies in that it theoretically builds the links between intra- and inter-organizational design-related activities by systematically mapping EPC hydropower project performance on partnering, design management, and design capability. These findings also suggest broad practical strategies for participants to optimally integrate their complementary resources into designs to achieve superior hydropower project performance.

Nursing professionals’ attitudes toward use of physical restraints in Styrian nursing homes Austria

Pflege ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Hannes Mayerl ◽  
Tanja Trummer ◽  
Erwin Stolz ◽  
Éva Rásky ◽  
Wolfgang Freidl
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Physical Restraint ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Physical Restraints ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Restraint Use ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Nursing Professionals

Abstract. Background: Given that nursing staff play a critical role in the decision regarding use of physical restraints, research has examined nursing professionals’ attitudes toward this practice. Aim: Since nursing professionals’ views on physical restraint use have not yet been examined in Austria to date, we aimed to explore nursing professionals’ attitudes concerning use of physical restraints in nursing homes of Styria (Austria). Method: Data were collected from a convenience sample of nursing professionals (N = 355) within 19 Styrian nursing homes, based on a cross-sectional study design. Attitudes toward the practice of restraint use were assessed by means of the Maastricht Attitude Questionnaire in the German version. Results: The overall results showed rather positive attitudes toward the use of physical restraints, yet the findings regarding the sub-dimensions of the questionnaire were mixed. Although nursing professionals tended to deny “good reasons” for using physical restraints, they evaluated the consequences of physical restraint use rather positive and considered restraint use as an appropriate health care practice. Nursing professionals’ views regarding the consequences of using specific physical restraints further showed that belts were considered as the most restricting and discomforting devices. Conclusions: Overall, Austrian nursing professionals seemed to hold more positive attitudes toward the use of physical restraints than counterparts in other Western European countries. Future nationwide large-scale surveys will be needed to confirm our findings.

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