Price, J;
Mainzer, K;
Petrovic, S;
Zeyringer, M;
McKenna, R;
(2020)
The implications of landscape visual impact on future highly renewable power systems: a case study for Great Britain.
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
10.1109/tpwrs.2020.2992061.
(In press).
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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 the GB 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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The implications of landscape visual impact on future highly renewable power systems: a case study for Great Britain |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tpwrs.2020.2992061 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2020.2992061 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Visualization, Power systems, Frequency response, Mathematical model, Computational modeling, Electric potential, Sensitivity |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129243 |
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