Standardizing the factors used in wind farm site suitability models: A review.

ABSTRACT: As global wind energy capacity continues to expand, the need to site commercial wind farms in productive, affordable, and technically feasible locations has become increasingly important. The use of wind farm site suitability models to identify these locations has grown consequently, thus increasing interest in standardizing certain aspects of these models' development. This systematic review of wind farm site suitability studies seeks to identify similarities and differences in the selection and representation of their enlisted siting factors. The review focuses on how subjective modeling decisions, such as vocabulary choices and dataset selection, occur in the literature, based on five identified themes: 1) Deciding Upon Siting Factors, which explains how a study's geographical co

SUBMITTER: Wimhurst JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10165411 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature