Abstract
Renewable energy use is spreading worldwide presenting the future of the power engineering - its renewable resources and low ecological impact characterize one of the best technologies to support permanently growing energy consumption and contribute to sustainable development. But its development is sometimes hampered by lack of suitable technologies and strong positions of the competing conventional energy production. Moreover, critics emphasize such problems of renewable energy use as unstable energy production, complicated connection to power lines, some ecological problems. To prove its efficiency renewable energy development needs support by relevant resource and ecological assessments. This paper presents our research concerning wind farm location issue regarding both production efficiency and minimal ecological impact. Our field research in Crimea was directed at on-site assessment of wind farm location efficiency as well as studies of public opinion concerning local wind farms and wind energy use in general. It was found out that Crimean wind farms have controversial location efficiency related to its power production. But their ecological impact was minimal proved by both on-site measurements and sociological survey results. It was also found that wind turbine noise impact had a very complicated character, but had no significant ecological impact.
Highlights
Nowadays economic activities are promoted by power engineering development which ecological footprint may be clearly determined
The principle factor controlling wind farm energy generation and environmental impact at a local level of wind energy use is its location in the environment. .Efficiency of electricity generation is defined by two issues: wind power potential depending on meteorological parameters and inter
Electricity generation efficiency of wind turbines highly depends on their location regarding wind power potential of a territory
Summary
Nowadays economic activities are promoted by power engineering development which ecological footprint may be clearly determined. Renewable energy use has a certain negative ecological impact, depending mainly on technological issues. The principle factor controlling wind farm energy generation and environmental impact at a local level of wind energy use is its location in the environment. Dependent work of wind turbines since each wind turbine (being a physical obstacle) produces a turbulent trace in the airflow. Such effect is noticeable at some distance from a wind turbine depending on a rotor diameter (UK Department of the Environment 2007; Samorani 2010; Meyers and Meneveau 2011). Being at the top list of environment-friendly power production wind energy production still has some negative impact (Fig. 1) (Rabl and Spadaro 2005). Minimization of wind farm ecological impact requires detailed field studies of local landscapes, fauna, human health
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