Guide to calculating the carbon dioxide debt and payback time for wind farms

Author: Hall, Mike | Emissions, Environment, Grid, U.K.

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The guide from the U.K. based Renewable Energy Foundation has been prepared to enable anyone with access to the Environmental Statement (ES) that forms part of a Planning Application (PA) for a wind farm to estimate its CO₂ debt. (If some of the requisite information proves to be unavailable, this ought to provide grounds for postponing consideration of the application and the commissioning of further assessment.) The results of the calculations described should be submitted to planning authorities or Public Inquiries as part of the arguments used in assessing the merits and demerits of an application.

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