Abstract
Germany has emerged as the global leader in wind project development, a large share of the country’s electricity produced by domestic wind turbines. Similar to other countries with a high penetration of wind power installations, there are numerous restrictions in Germany that could potentially stagnate the positive development towards the country’s renewable energy targets for 2050. These restrictions risk causing delays and cost overruns in the development of onshore wind projects, which can increase the levelized cost of energy and even halt the development of new wind farms. This study aims to inform German wind industry stakeholders about the current restrictions by producing a socio-technical wind atlas, which also suits as a resource map for new project investments. The atlas is a geographical information system developed for Germany, which is supplemented with interdisciplinary parameters and built on open source data. Moreover, the socio-technical wind atlas has been developed using seamless vector data. To determine the area available for wind power development, a raster calculation with a spatial resolution of 10 × 10 m was performed, making it the most precise source for new wind project development restrictions in Germany today. The methodology and data used aim to aid similar developments of decision support systems for wind power development in other countries, region or even globally.
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