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Wind power plant owners carefully plan where to position wind turbines and consider how fast and how often the wind blows at the site. Good places for wind turbines are where the annual average wind speed is at least 9 miles per hour (mph)—or 4.0 meters per second (m/s)—for small wind turbines and 13 mph (5.8 m/s) for utility-scale turbines.
There is no well-established method to compute the area of each wind power plant. To do so, we compute a Voroni polygon (after Гео́ргий Вороно́й) using QGIS Development Team ( 2018) for each wind turbine in the USWTDB which delineates the ground area that is closest to each individual turbine location compared to every other turbine.
However, local exposure to wind power projects is highly regional, as measured through turbine proximities. For example, turbines in the Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Northeast regions tend to be in closest proximity to built structures, with mean distances of 496, 702, and 887 m, respectively.
Spatial data on wind turbine installations were provided by the U.S. Wind Turbine Database (UWSTDB) (Hoen et al 2018). The USWTDB contains wind plant project information and technical specifications for more than 65 000 turbines operational as of October 2020.
Operating a wind power plant is more complex than simply erecting wind turbines in a windy area. Wind power plant owners carefully plan where to position wind turbines and consider how fast and how often the wind blows at the site.
Wind plant deployment on public lands is limited as we find only 12 of these plants (929 MW; 1.6%) nationwide. All instances of public land occupancy occur in western states, including California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming.
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