@article{McKennaPfenningerHeinrichsetal.2022, author = {McKenna, Russell and Pfenninger, Stefan and Heinrichs, Heidi and Schmidt, Johannes and Staffell, Iain and Bauer, Christian and Gruber, Katharina and Hahmann, Andrea N. and Jansen, Malte and Klingler, Michael and Landwehr, Natascha and Lars{\´e}n, Xiaoli Guo and Lilliestam, Johan and Pickering, Bryn and Robinius, Martin and Tr{\"o}ndle, Tim and Turkovska, Olga and Wehrle, Sebastian and Weinand, Jann Michael and Wohland, Jan}, title = {High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments}, series = {Renewable energy}, volume = {182}, journal = {Renewable energy}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0960-1481}, doi = {10.1016/j.renene.2021.10.027}, pages = {659 -- 684}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The rapid uptake of renewable energy technologies in recent decades has increased the demand of energy researchers, policymakers and energy planners for reliable data on the spatial distribution of their costs and potentials. For onshore wind energy this has resulted in an active research field devoted to analysing these resources for regions, countries or globally. A particular thread of this research attempts to go beyond purely technical or spatial restrictions and determine the realistic, feasible or actual potential for wind energy. Motivated by these developments, this paper reviews methods and assumptions for analysing geographical, technical, economic and, finally, feasible onshore wind potentials. We address each of these potentials in turn, including aspects related to land eligibility criteria, energy meteorology, and technical developments of wind turbine characteristics such as power density, specific rotor power and spacing aspects. Economic aspects of potential assessments are central to future deployment and are discussed on a turbine and system level covering levelized costs depending on locations, and the system integration costs which are often overlooked in such analyses. Non-technical approaches include scenicness assessments of the landscape, constraints due to regulation or public opposition, expert and stakeholder workshops, willingness to pay/accept elicitations and socioeconomic cost-benefit studies. For each of these different potential estimations, the state of the art is critically discussed, with an attempt to derive best practice recommendations and highlight avenues for future research.}, language = {en} } @article{KrupnikWagnerVincentetal.2022, author = {Krupnik, Seweryn and Wagner, Aleksandra and Vincent, Olga and Rudek, Tadeusz J. and Wade, Robert and Misik, Mat{\´u}š and Akerboom, Sanne and Foulds, Chris and Smith Stegen, Karen and Adem, {\c{C}}iğdem and Batel, Susana and Rabitz, Florian and Certom{\`a}, Chiara and Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Justyna and Dokupilov{\´a}, Dušana and Leiren, Merethe D. and Ignatieva, Frolova M. and Gabald{\´o}n-Estevan, Daniel. and Horta, Ana and Karn{\o}e, Peter and Lilliestam, Johan and Loorbach, Derk A. and M{\"u}hlemeier, Susan and N{\´e}moz, Sophie and Nilsson, M{\aa}ns and Osička, Jan and Papamikrouli, Louiza and Pellizioni, Luigi and Sareen, Siddharth and Sarrica, Mauro and Seyfang, Gill and Sovacool, Benjamin K. and Telesiene, Audrone and Zapletalova, Veronika and von Wirth, Timo}, title = {Beyond technology}, series = {Energy research \& social science}, volume = {89}, journal = {Energy research \& social science}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {22146296}, doi = {10.1016/j.erss.2022.102536}, pages = {11}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and expertise, the paper develops a set of 100 priority questions for future research within SSH scholarship on renewable energy sources. These questions were aggregated into four main directions: (i) deep transformations and connections to the broader economic system (i.e. radical ways of (re)arranging socio-technical, political and economic relations), (ii) cultural and geographical diversity (i.e. contextual cultural, historical, political and socio-economic factors influencing citizen support for energy transitions), (iii) complexifying energy governance (i.e. understanding energy systems from a systems dynamics perspective) and (iv) shifting from instrumental acceptance to value-based objectives (i.e. public support for energy transitions as a normative notion linked to trust-building and citizen engagement). While this agenda is not intended to be—and cannot be—exhaustive or exclusive, we argue that it advances the understanding of SSH research on renewable energy sources and may have important value in the prioritisation of SSH themes needed to enrich dialogues between policymakers, funding institutions and researchers. SSH scholarship should not be treated as instrumental to other research on renewable energy but as intrinsic and of the same hierarchical importance.}, language = {en} }