CNH-Ex: Legal, Economic, and Natural Science Analyses of Wind Plant Impacts and Interactions

CNH-Ex：风力发电厂影响和相互作用的法律、经济和自然科学分析

• 批准号: 1413980
• 负责人: Julie Lundquist
• 金额: $ 24.87万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-15 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1413980&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CNH; Ex; Legal; Economic; Natural

This research project will examine the physical, economic, and legal interactions among wind turbines, wind farms, and their local environments. The project will seek answers to a set of important questions, including the following: Who owns the wind? Who enjoys the benefits of positive downwind impacts on crops and other wind plants? Who bears responsibility for negative downwind impacts of newly constructed wind turbines? This project will quantify the atmospheric and economic impacts of wind farms to more accurately assess the complex implications of new wind farms on both natural and human systems. The investigators also will propose nationwide legal frameworks that accurately reflect the physical and economic impacts on wind farms' neighbors. Appropriate legal guidance can result in greater efficiencies and reduce waste of wind resources. Because it will couple physical, economic, and legal investigations, the project will help to reduce the frequency of adversarial, litigation-based solutions and maximize public benefit in a fair and predictable manner, thereby providing the policy tools to optimize the development of the nation's sustainable energy resources. This project is supported by the NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) Program.The production of energy from wind has increased significantly over the past decade, and projections suggest this increase is likely to continue. The establishment of more turbines in large wind farms brings the growing risk of impacts on local environments, crops, and other wind farms, however. The investigators will integrate atmospheric science and economic impact studies along with systematic legal analyses to more effectively characterize the complex interactions among natural and human systems downwind from wind farms, and they will provide new insights regarding policy and other approaches to maximizing benefits while reducing risks. The researchers will use publicly available weather prediction to simulate wind farm impacts, which then will be compared to extensive datasets of wind, turbulence, and turbine power production data from three large wind farms in different regions of the country. If improvements to the representation of wind farms in weather models are required, these improvements will be made and made available for weather forecasters and others. The investigators will analyze the economic impacts of wind development on landowners within a wind farm and on downwind neighbors, and they will assess local, state, and national wind case law in order to understand whether and how wind farm atmospheric and economic impacts are accurately represented by current legal frameworks. This categorization and analysis will provide a new resource to other wind law researchers. The weather simulations and aggregated economic and legal data created in this project will be maintained on a publicly available data archive to enable future investigations of wind energy economic and legal impacts.

该研究项目将研究风力涡轮机，风电场及其当地环境之间的物理，经济和法律互动。 该项目将寻求一组重要问题的答案，包括以下内容：谁拥有风？ 谁享受对农作物和其他风电厂的积极影响的好处？ 谁负责新建的风力涡轮机的负面影响？ 该项目将量化风电场的大气和经济影响，以更准确地评估新风电场对自然和人类系统的复杂含义。 调查人员还将提出全国范围的法律框架，以准确反映对风电场邻国的物理和经济影响。 适当的法律指导可能会导致更大的效率并减少浪费风资源。 因为它将融合身体，经济和法律调查，所以该项目将有助于减少对抗性，基于诉讼的解决方案的频率，并以公平且可预测的方式最大化公共利益，从而提供政策工具来优化国家可持续能源的发展。 该项目得到了耦合的自然和人类系统（CNH）计划的NSF动力学支持。在过去的十年中，风能产生的能源的产量大大增加，预测表明这种增长可能会持续下去。 然而，在大型风电场中建立更多的涡轮机会使对当地环境，农作物和其他风电场的影响的风险日益增加。 研究人员将将大气科学和经济影响研究以及系统的法律分析整合在一起，以更有效地表征风电场下风的自然和人类系统之间的复杂相互作用，它们将提供有关政策和其他方法的新见解，以最大程度地提高福利，同时降低风险。 研究人员将使用公开可用的天气预测来模拟风电场的影响，然后将其与来自该国不同地区的三个大型风电场的大量风，湍流和涡轮发电数据集进行比较。 如果需要改善风电场在天气模型中的代表，则将对天气预报员和其他人进行这些改进。 调查人员将分析风能开发对风电场和下风邻居内部土地所有者的经济影响，他们将评估当前法律框架是否以及如何准确地代表风电场大气和经济影响。 这种分类和分析将为其他风法研究人员提供新的资源。 该项目中创建的天气模拟以及汇总的经济和法律数据将在公开可用的数据档案中维持，以实现对风能经济和法律影响的未来调查。