A continental approach to estimate the area required for proposed wind-power parks and their overlap with protected areas in Africa
Wind energy (WE) is one of the key renewable energy technologies required to transform the energy sector to reduce climate change. In the global expansion of WE, one main concern is that wind-power parks (WPPs) take up large areas of land, causing conflicts with other uses such as nature conservatio...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2025-01-01
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Series: | Environmental Research Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ada970 |