The territorial and landscape impacts of photovoltaic systems: Definition of impacts and assessment of the glare risk

Chiabrando, Roberto; Fabrizio, Enrico; Garnero, Gabriele

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2009.06.008

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“…In addition, there are effects of wind parks -both onshore and offshore -on wildlife (Drewitt and Langston 2006, Mathew 2006, Leung and Yang 2012, Schubert et al 2015). Regarding solar power, possible impairments include glare risks and visual impacts on buildings as well as on landscapes in case of free-standing solar plants (Chiabrando et al 2009). Biogas plants affect residents through odor nuisance and noise caused by fuel deliveries.…”

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“…Noise disturbance from wind turbines usually occurs within 500 m but depends on local conditions, such as level differences (Pedersen and Persson Waye, 2007). The glare impact of solar installations highly depends on the geometric conditions, such as the slope of solar panels and the direction of solar irradiation (Chiabrando et al, 2009). With respect to biogas plants, Nicolas et al (2013) find odor nuisance up to a distance of 600 m.…”

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Electricity Externalities, Siting, and the Energy Mix: A Survey

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2016

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWhile early literature on electricity externalities was largely concerned with fossil fuel power generation and the associated emissions, nuclear accidents (Chernobyl, Fukushima) and the large-scale deployment of renewable energy facilities have spurred a wave of research on the externalities of nuclear power and renewable energies. The issue is important because many countries have started reconsidering their energy policies, and the externalities from electricity generation play a major role in the benefit-cost analysis of relevant options. This paper reviews the literature on electricity-related externalities. It starts by discussing their nature and the methods employed in valuing them. It finds that appraisals of electricity externalities are complicated because of heterogeneity of both the externalities themselves and the methods applied in measuring them. The paper reviews valuation studies of the externalities from fossil fuel, nuclear and renewable sources, and it discusses the relevance of their findings for the siting of plants and the electricity mix. It concludes by pointing out gaps in our knowledge about electricity externalities that deserve to be addressed in future research.

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Electricity Externalities, Siting, and the Energy Mix: A Survey

Welsch

2016

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“…The adverse effects of renewable energy threaten the wellbeing of inhabitants in the environs of the renewable energy sources facilities [36] via sound from wind turbines [37] or through the risk of glare by mirroring of straight sunlight from photovoltaic unit areas [38]. The research focus is here is twofold.…”

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Does Renewable Energy Drive Sustainable Economic Growth? Multivariate Panel Data Evidence for EU-28 Countries

2017

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Abstract:Energy is crucial to economic progress, but the contemporary worldwide population increase that demands greater energy generated from conventional exhaustible resources, an energy price upsurge, and environmental concerns, imperils sustainable economic growth. Nevertheless, switching to renewable energy produced from naturally replenished resources promotes energy security, likewise addressing issues such as global warming and climate change. This paper aims at exploring the influence and causal relation between renewable energy, both overall and by type, and sustainable economic growth of European Union (EU)-28 countries for the period of 2003-2014. We notice that the mean share of renewable energy in the gross final energy consumption is 15%, while the mean share of renewable energy in transport fuel consumption is 3%, which are below the thresholds of 20% and 10%, respectively, as set by the EU Directive 2009/28/EC. By estimating panel data fixed-effects regression models, the results provide support for a positive influence of renewable energy overall, as well as by type, namely biomass, hydropower, geothermal energy, wind power, and solar energy on gross domestic product per capita. However, biomass energy shows the highest influence on economic growth among the rest of renewable energy types. In fact, a 1% increase of the primary production of solid biofuels increases GDP per capita by 0.16%. Besides, cointegrating regressions set on panel fully modified and dynamic ordinary least squares regressions confirm the positive influence related to the primary production of renewable energies on economic growth. A 1% increase in primary production of renewable energies increases GDP per capita by 0.05%-0.06%. However, the results of Granger causality based on panel vector error correction model indicate both in short-run and long-run a unidirectional causal relationship running from sustainable economic growth to the primary production of renewable energies, being supported the conservation hypothesis.

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“…The effects of glare on humans has been quantified by Metcalf and Horn [2], Saur and Dobrash [3], Severin et al [4], and Sliney and Freasier [5]. In other studies Brumleve [6], Chiabrando et al [7], and Ho et al [1] developed mathematical methods to quantify the potential danger of glare causing flash blindness. Flash blindness is defined by Ho as a "temporary disability or distraction" that can cause an afterimage and is understood to be comparable to what a human experiences when viewing the flash of a camera.…”

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A Study of the Hazardous Glare Potential to Aviators from Utility-Scale Flat-Plate Photovoltaic Systems

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Olson²

2011

ISRN Renewable Energy

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The potential flash glare a pilot could experience from a proposed 25-degree fixed-tilt flat-plate polycrystalline PV system located outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, was modeled for the purpose of hazard quantification. Hourly insolation data measured via satellite for the years 1998 to 2004 was used to perform the modeling. The theoretical glare was estimated using published ocular safety metrics which quantify the potential for a postflash glare after-image. This was then compared to the postflash glare after-image potential caused by smooth water. The results show that the potential for hazardous glare from flat-plate PV systems is similar to that of smooth water and not expected to be a hazard to air navigation.

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The territorial and landscape impacts of photovoltaic systems: Definition of impacts and assessment of the glare risk

Cited by 141 publications

References 42 publications

Electricity Externalities, Siting, and the Energy Mix: A Survey

Electricity Externalities, Siting, and the Energy Mix: A Survey

Does Renewable Energy Drive Sustainable Economic Growth? Multivariate Panel Data Evidence for EU-28 Countries

A Study of the Hazardous Glare Potential to Aviators from Utility-Scale Flat-Plate Photovoltaic Systems

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