TY  - JOUR
A1  - McKenna, Russell
A1  - Pfenninger, Stefan
A1  - Heinrichs, Heidi
A1  - Schmidt, Johannes
A1  - Staffell, Iain
A1  - Bauer, Christian
A1  - Gruber, Katharina
A1  - Hahmann, Andrea N.
A1  - Jansen, Malte
A1  - Klingler, Michael
A1  - Landwehr, Natascha
A1  - Larsén, Xiaoli Guo
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
A1  - Pickering, Bryn
A1  - Robinius, Martin
A1  - Tröndle, Tim
A1  - Turkovska, Olga
A1  - Wehrle, Sebastian
A1  - Weinand, Jann Michael
A1  - Wohland, Jan
T1  - High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments
BT  - a review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs
JF  - Renewable energy
N2  - 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.
KW  - onshore wind
KW  - resource assessments
KW  - social acceptance
KW  - planning constraints
KW  - research priorities
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.10.027
SN  - 0960-1481
VL  - 182
SP  - 659
EP  - 684
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krupnik, Seweryn
A1  - Wagner, Aleksandra
A1  - Vincent, Olga
A1  - Rudek, Tadeusz J.
A1  - Wade, Robert
A1  - Misik, Matúš
A1  - Akerboom, Sanne
A1  - Foulds, Chris
A1  - Smith Stegen, Karen
A1  - Adem, Çiğdem
A1  - Batel, Susana
A1  - Rabitz, Florian
A1  - Certomà, Chiara
A1  - Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Justyna
A1  - Dokupilová, Dušana
A1  - Leiren, Merethe D.
A1  - Ignatieva, Frolova M.
A1  - Gabaldón-Estevan, Daniel.
A1  - Horta, Ana
A1  - Karnøe, Peter
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
A1  - Loorbach, Derk A.
A1  - Mühlemeier, Susan
A1  - Némoz, Sophie
A1  - Nilsson, Måns
A1  - Osička, Jan
A1  - Papamikrouli, Louiza
A1  - Pellizioni, Luigi
A1  - Sareen, Siddharth
A1  - Sarrica, Mauro
A1  - Seyfang, Gill
A1  - Sovacool, Benjamin K.
A1  - Telesiene, Audrone
A1  - Zapletalova, Veronika
A1  - von Wirth, Timo
T1  - Beyond technology
BT  - a research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe
JF  - Energy research & social science
N2  - 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.
KW  - horizon scanning
KW  - research priorities
KW  - funding directions
KW  - EU Horizon Europe
KW  - research-policy interface
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102536
SN  - 22146296
VL  - 89
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -