Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instruments
Wind turbines may cause negative environmental impacts, such as residential disamenities or adverse effects for ecologically protected areas. Spatial planning policies are a common instrument to address these impacts, e.g. by excluding areas from wind power. While the targeted environmental impacts...
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| author | Charlotte Geiger Philip Tafarte Elisabeth Wolfram Paul Lehmann |
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| description | Wind turbines may cause negative environmental impacts, such as residential disamenities or adverse effects for ecologically protected areas. Spatial planning policies are a common instrument to address these impacts, e.g. by excluding areas from wind power. While the targeted environmental impacts may be effectively reduced, spatial planning policies can cause trade-offs with untargeted environmental impacts. We assess these trade-offs in a spatial optimization model based on high-resolution GIS data of the potential areas for onshore wind power in Germany. We find that considerable trade-offs exist between environmental impacts, but not for the average levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of wind power production. Combinations of spatial planning policies result in higher trade-offs. Additionally, we identify five underlying drivers for the size of trade-offs. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7054a84239784cb08bac560bc7a0e4362025-02-06T12:18:08ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Land Use Science1747-423X1747-42482025-12-0120112010.1080/1747423X.2025.2458849Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instrumentsCharlotte Geiger0Philip Tafarte1Elisabeth Wolfram2Paul Lehmann3Faculty of Economics and Management Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, GermanyFaculty of Economics and Management Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, GermanyFaculty of Economics and Management Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, GermanyFaculty of Economics and Management Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, GermanyWind turbines may cause negative environmental impacts, such as residential disamenities or adverse effects for ecologically protected areas. Spatial planning policies are a common instrument to address these impacts, e.g. by excluding areas from wind power. While the targeted environmental impacts may be effectively reduced, spatial planning policies can cause trade-offs with untargeted environmental impacts. We assess these trade-offs in a spatial optimization model based on high-resolution GIS data of the potential areas for onshore wind power in Germany. We find that considerable trade-offs exist between environmental impacts, but not for the average levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of wind power production. Combinations of spatial planning policies result in higher trade-offs. Additionally, we identify five underlying drivers for the size of trade-offs.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/1747423X.2025.2458849Spatial planning policiestrade-offswind powerenvironmental regulation |
| spellingShingle | Charlotte Geiger Philip Tafarte Elisabeth Wolfram Paul Lehmann Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instruments Journal of Land Use Science Spatial planning policies trade-offs wind power environmental regulation |
| title | Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instruments |
| title_full | Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instruments |
| title_fullStr | Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instruments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instruments |
| title_short | Wind power deployment in Germany: trade-offs of spatial planning instruments |
| title_sort | wind power deployment in germany trade offs of spatial planning instruments |
| topic | Spatial planning policies trade-offs wind power environmental regulation |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/1747423X.2025.2458849 |
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