U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Wind Power Siting: Public Acceptance and Land Use; NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Written by drupaladmin On the

Suzanne Tegen presented this information as part of the June 17, 2015 WINDExchange webinar: Overcoming Wind Siting Challenges III: Public Acceptance and Land Use. This presentation provides an overview of current NREL research related to wind energy deployment considerations, the DOE Wind Vision as it relates to public acceptance and land use, why public acceptance of wind power matters, where the U.S. wind resource is best, and how those rich resource areas overlay with population centers.

NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States))
Siting Considerations
Distributed Wind
Utility-Scale Wind
Conference
Tegen, Suzanne