Detailed information about the potentials and costs of renewable energies is an important input factor for energy system models, as well as commercial and political decision-making processes. With its increasing locally installed capacity and hub height, wind energy plays an important role when...

The paper examines the applicability of available scenarios, prognoses and political target-set-tings of the future development of wind power generation as guiding parameters for the re-search project "FlächEn" which focuses on ecological-economic modelling of a sustainable siting of wind...

Für eine klimaneutrale Energieversorgung muss Deutschland Technologien und Infrastrukturen ausbauen: Es braucht mehr erneuerbare Energien, Wärmepumpen, Elektromobilität, Strom- und Wasserstoffnetze. Um Klimaneutralität zu erreichen, wird das allein aber nicht mehr ausreichen. Wie Deutschland...

Legitimacy is a crucial factor determining the success of technologies in the early stages of development and for maintaining resource flows as well as public and political support across the technology life cycle. In sustainability transitions that unfold over long periods of time, the...

The deployment of onshore wind power is an important means to mitigate climate change. However, wind turbines also produce local disamenities to residents living next to them, mainly due to noise emissions and visual effects. Our paper analyzes how the presence of local disamenities affects the...