Table 1.
Reported values of land transformation associated with wind development, the original value transformed into ha/MW, and the predicted amount of land transformation required to meet 251GW of land based wind energy—a stated goal of the Department of Energy (DOE) [9].
Table 2.
Sample sizes associated with each categorical variable used in the analyses.
Figure 1.
Mean (±95% Confidence Interval) of the land transformation associated with wind facilities in different land use and cover (“Land cover”) categories at 3 spatial scales of analysis.
Figure 2.
Mean (±95% Confidence Interval) of the land transformation associated with wind facilities in different topographic categories at 2 spatial scales of analysis.
Figure 3.
The linear relationship (black line) and 95% Confidence Interval (red lines) between the mean nearest neighbor distance among turbines at a facility and the size of the turbines in MW of capacity.