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Development of a decision support system for setting up a wind energy policy across the Walloon Region (southern Belgium)
Lejeune, Philippe; Feltz, Claude
2008In Renewable Energy, 33, p. 2416-2422
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Keywords :
Wind farm; Spatial decision support system; GIS; Landscape; Constraint mapping; Wallonia
Abstract :
[en] Wallonia (the region covering southern Belgium) is committed to making a significant increase in its wind-powered electricity production capacity by 2010. Therefore, a decision support system designed to evaluate and map environmental and landscape constraints fundamental to the building of wind farms was developed for the whole Walloon Region (17,000 km2). This system is a geodatabase using 40 criteria (landscape or environmental) corresponding to three constraint levels (exclusion, highly sensitive and sensitive). This geodatabase also has analysis functions developed in the ArcGIS 9 software environment that are used to update the overall constraints map, to analyse sensitivity with respect to constraint criteria-defining parameters as well as to perform full diagnostic studies on wind farm projects.
Disciplines :
Energy
Agriculture & agronomy
Author, co-author :
Lejeune, Philippe ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Feltz, Claude ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Language :
English
Title :
Development of a decision support system for setting up a wind energy policy across the Walloon Region (southern Belgium)
Publication date :
18 April 2008
Journal title :
Renewable Energy
ISSN :
0960-1481
Publisher :
Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science
Volume :
33
Pages :
2416-2422
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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