More than a feeling: Analyzing community cognitive and affective perceptions of the Block Island offshore wind project

Russell, Aaron; Firestone, Jeremy

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2022.05.032

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“…Such areas offer favourable conditions, as costs during construction are lower due to reduced logistical effort and less materials for foundations and submarine cables to be used (Kim et al, 2018). However, These areas are often characterised by intensive multiple use by different stakeholders and purposes that mix socio-economic and environmental interests such as fishing, aquaculture, shipping routes, recreational spaces, populated coastal areas, cultural heritage or nature conservation areas (Kim et al, 2018;Russell and Firestone, 2022;Gusatu et al, 2020;Virtanen et al, 2022). Embedding offshore wind energy sites in these already diverse and existing multiple uses of coastal areas poses major planning challenges (Guşatu et al, 2021;Virtanen et al, 2022).…”

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Global dynamics of the offshore wind energy sector monitored with Sentinel-1: Turbine count, installed capacity and site specifications

Hoeser¹,

Kuenzer²

2022

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With the promotion of renewable energy production and a planned phaseout of fossil fuels until 2040, the offshore wind energy sector has started to expand and will continue to increase its capacity in the upcoming decades. This study presents how the installed capacity can be derived from radar imagery provided by the Sentinel-1 mission for all offshore wind turbines on the entire Earth. By further combining freely available Earth observation and GIS data, commonly reported attributes of the offshore wind energy sector are compiled. All attributes are investigated to provide an in-depth overview of the developments of the offshore wind energy sector over the last five years. Between 2016 and 2021, the installed capacity worldwide grew from 13.5 GW to 40.6 GW. This corresponds to an increase of 27.1 GW or 200\%. In total 8,885 offshore wind turbines (OWTs) were installed until June 2021 with an additional 852 under construction. The European Union (15.2 GW), China (14.1 GW) and the United Kingdom (10.7 GW) are the three major contributors to the offshore wind energy sector. China has seen the largest growth in the last five years of 13 GW, followed by the EU with 8 GW and the UK with 5.8 GW. The provided in-depth analysis at the end of this study describes the offshore wind energy sector to be in a transition phase between decades of maturity and massive growth at a time when carbon-neutral energy production is massively supported. Overall the proposed methods for independent offshore wind turbine capacity estimation and spatiotemporal investigation of the offshore wind energy sector can be used by all stakeholders involved in the upcoming challenge of integrated planning and implementation of offshore wind energy projects.

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Global dynamics of the offshore wind energy sector monitored with Sentinel-1: Turbine count, installed capacity and site specifications

Hoeser¹,

Kuenzer²

2022

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“…Other recent publications have relied on integrative conceptualizations of emotions and affect as part of “dual-process” models, which emphasize the coupled nature of cognition and affect (Menzel, 2013; Russell & Firestone, 2021, 2022; Truelove, 2012). Famously described as “thinking, fast and slow” (Kahneman, 2011), dual-process models represent a promising approach to studying affect in tandem with cognition where interactions among many variables might be otherwise missed.…”

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Sustainable Energy Siting, Affect, and Climate Mitigation: Questions for a Future Research Agenda

Russell

Firestone

2023

Emotion Review

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The affective sciences are essential to research regarding sustainable transition towards renewable energy. We focus on important questions that should be addressed by affective science in relation to the siting of large-scale renewable energy projects like wind and solar. Considering the recent acceleration of the transition, a more holistic understanding of negative and positive emotional responses to energy development will be essential. This is particularly important as the least controversial sites begin to dwindle in number. We break this commentary down into four primary question categories for future research. These are the causal relationships between emotional elicitations and their sources, dual processing through cognitive and affective response, affect and its relationship with place, and how all of these elements change over time.

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Global dynamics of the offshore wind energy sector monitored with Sentinel-1: Turbine count, installed capacity and site specifications

Hoeser

Kuenzer

2022

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinfor

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More than a feeling: Analyzing community cognitive and affective perceptions of the Block Island offshore wind project

Cited by 5 publications

References 58 publications

Global dynamics of the offshore wind energy sector monitored with Sentinel-1: Turbine count, installed capacity and site specifications

Global dynamics of the offshore wind energy sector monitored with Sentinel-1: Turbine count, installed capacity and site specifications

Sustainable Energy Siting, Affect, and Climate Mitigation: Questions for a Future Research Agenda

Global dynamics of the offshore wind energy sector monitored with Sentinel-1: Turbine count, installed capacity and site specifications

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