2024-06-04 03:48:50
Beneath 0.06% of the reforestable land within the nation is occupied by wind farms. That is the principle conclusion of quantitative and spatial evaluation printed by the Hellenic Wind Power Scientific Affiliation ELETAEN. In different phrases, based mostly on the information, the incorrect suggestion circulating on the web that “the place an space burns, wind generators develop” is disproved.
The evaluation is predicated on the publicly out there geospatial information of validated forest maps and the Copernicus programme. Along with this examine, ELETAEN printed an inventory of detailed solutions to faux information and questions circulating on the web.
In additional element, for the wants of the examine have been used:
Detailed public geospatial information of the areas affected by hearth, from 1.1.2008 to 31.8.2023, along with the knowledge on the time of prevalence of the fireplace (Copernicus program).
The reforestable areas per Regional Unit of Greece, as contained within the up to date sanctioned forest maps that cowl your entire territory.
The information on the wind generators that had been put in till the top of June 2023 in Greece. An extra 65 wind generators put in within the second half of 2023 have been additionally inspected.
The quantitative evaluation exhibits that:
The overall variety of wind farms put in in reforestable areas occupies lower than 0.06% of those areas.
The occupancy price drops to 0.02% if solely wind farms put in after the fireplace are thought of.
It seems that there is no such thing as a correlation between the fires and the wind generators.
From the examine of the information, it additionally emerged {that a} hearth can attain a random space both earlier than or after the set up of the wind generators. And for that reason, there is no such thing as a correlation.
Concurrently the examine, ELETAEN printed an inventory of detailed solutions to an equal variety of questions (good religion and dangerous religion) which might be circulating on the web. These solutions complement earlier bulletins:
The set up of wind generators is allowed, beneath situations, inside forest areas in accordance with the Structure, the legislation and the Council of State. In different phrases, there is no such thing as a motive to destroy the forest space to do one thing that’s already allowed.
Conversely, the destruction of a forested space by hearth makes it troublesome, when it comes to allowing and building, to put in wind generators and their related tasks and affords no benefit (monetary, technical or in any other case) throughout building or operation.
Wind farms contribute to the safety of the native forest atmosphere. For instance, the launched textual content consists of examples the place wind farm highway building was used to extinguish adjoining fires.
Wind farms are obliged and perform reforestation of an space equal to that which they occupy or equal forestry tasks in areas indicated by the forestry authorities. These reforestations are along with the restoration of the lands of their locations of firm.
The highway building of the wind farms is deliberate based on the directions of the forest providers and authorised by them, in order that it may be built-in into the operational planning of the fireplace and forest service and the administration of forests and forest lands.
See the Research with the spatial and quantitative evaluation of the information HERE
See the reality about 13 questions circulating HERE
Supply: Reporter.gr