The electricity system value of the local acceptance of onshore wind in Europe
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| author | Price, James Valenzuela-Venegas, Guillermo Vågerö, Oskar Zeyringer, Marianne Bucha, Monika Chen, Ruihong Etard, Adrienne Hahmann, Andrea N. Lohrmann, Alena McKenna, Russell Mikovits, Christian Panos, Evangelos Zhang, Meixi Camargo, Luis Ramirez |
| author_facet | Price, James Valenzuela-Venegas, Guillermo Vågerö, Oskar Zeyringer, Marianne Bucha, Monika Chen, Ruihong Etard, Adrienne Hahmann, Andrea N. Lohrmann, Alena McKenna, Russell Mikovits, Christian Panos, Evangelos Zhang, Meixi Camargo, Luis Ramirez |
| contents | The large-scale deployment of wind power is central to Europe`s energy transition but faces challenges due to its social and environmental impacts on communities. Here we assess how the tolerance of local stakeholders to such impacts translates across spatial scales to shape the cost and design of the continent`s net-zero electricity system using a soft-linked modelling framework. We find that lower impact tolerance can reduce the role of onshore wind in Europe reaching net-zero by up to 84% relative to a future where wind enjoys higher acceptance, with other low carbon sources needing to be scaled up to compensate. This translates into total European electricity system costs increasing by between 2-14% while some countries see costs escalating by 20% or more. Our results show that the local acceptance of onshore wind is a key structural driver of the system and highlight the system value of policies to promote it. |
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| spellingShingle | The electricity system value of the local acceptance of onshore wind in Europe Price, James Valenzuela-Venegas, Guillermo Vågerö, Oskar Zeyringer, Marianne Bucha, Monika Chen, Ruihong Etard, Adrienne Hahmann, Andrea N. Lohrmann, Alena McKenna, Russell Mikovits, Christian Panos, Evangelos Zhang, Meixi Camargo, Luis Ramirez Physics and Society The large-scale deployment of wind power is central to Europe`s energy transition but faces challenges due to its social and environmental impacts on communities. Here we assess how the tolerance of local stakeholders to such impacts translates across spatial scales to shape the cost and design of the continent`s net-zero electricity system using a soft-linked modelling framework. We find that lower impact tolerance can reduce the role of onshore wind in Europe reaching net-zero by up to 84% relative to a future where wind enjoys higher acceptance, with other low carbon sources needing to be scaled up to compensate. This translates into total European electricity system costs increasing by between 2-14% while some countries see costs escalating by 20% or more. Our results show that the local acceptance of onshore wind is a key structural driver of the system and highlight the system value of policies to promote it. |
| title | The electricity system value of the local acceptance of onshore wind in Europe |
| topic | Physics and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28279 |