Abstract
The estimation of the potential impact of a wind farm on the existing telecommunication services allows the modification of the wind farm layout or the planning of alternative solutions to guarantee the installation of a new wind farm without disturbing the surrounding services. This paper describes the development of new algorithms for the evaluation of the effect of a wind farm on telecommunication services (Air Traffic Control radars, Weather radars, radio links and radio navigation aids), and presents representative examples of impact studies. The novelty of these algorithms is that they estimate the safeguarding areas that should be avoided in the wind farm deployment, and therefore, they can be applied without a previous definition of the wind turbine locations. Therefore, results consist on the set of locations where a wind turbine might interfere in a specific service. These results are represented as visual masks on the terrain, easy to be used on GIS systems or Google Earth, and they are easy to combine with other constraints or datasets used in the wind farm design process (wind data, terrain slope, environmental protected areas, etc.). These algorithms will contribute to simplify and reduce the time required in the wind farm design process.
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