Optimising land use for wind farms

Energy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 471-475

  Christie, David ^a   Bradley, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Land use; Wake; Wind farms

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LAND USE; SIZE SEPARATION; WAKES; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

COST OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCTIONS; ECONOMIC GAINS; MAXIMUM POWER DENSITY; OPTIMAL SCALE; POWER DENSITIES; POWER PRODUCTION; SIMPLE MODELING; WIND FARM;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION;

LAND USE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84869122686     PISSN: 09730826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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