System impacts of wind energy developments: Key research challenges and opportunities

Context & scale Wind energy is currently one of the cheapest renewable energy technologies and plays a central role in many countries’ climate and energy strategies. However, like any electricity-generation technology, wind energy affects and interacts with the broader environmental, social, economic, technical, and legal systems it integrates with. These impacts can potentially slow its deployment, delaying progress on essential decarbonization and energy security objectives. Solutions often exist, but challenges remain due to fundamental research gaps and limited understanding of the true scale of impacts. This article identifies four broad impact categories and fourteen individual impacts, which we…

• EC
  European Commission

  Awards: 101061882, 101076649, 101083460
• BO
  Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology
• HE
  HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme