Land Use Considerations and Siting Assessment for Renewable Energy Facilities

[摘要]jonathan Miles， James Madison u .该奖项是OISE？美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的国际规划访问项目，并将支持詹姆斯麦迪逊大学（JMU）的教师团队两次前往马耳他大学（UM）与他们的同行会面，目的是规划和启动一个跨学科的合作研究项目。可再生能源设施的土地使用考虑及选址评估(“坐着”这个词？在可再生能源行业中，用来表示识别、评估和选择可再生能源系统最佳位置的过程，目的是尽量减少对供水和其他资源的影响。)考虑到两国在大型可再生能源项目选址方面存在的挑战，以及跨学科和跨国研究团队开发适当工具和策略的机会，这种关注尤其及时，这些工具和策略可以进一步广泛了解如何优化可再生能源站点。访问计划将使JMU和UM教员组成的多元化团队能够在马耳他参与到一个结构化的研究准备项目中，这将很难通过远程方式进行。特别是，这些访问将需要深入讨论，目的是概述和组织合作研究项目，确定和评估UM校园中的适当资源，并访问马耳他各地的网站，其中部分研究项目将在那里进行。该项目将开发一种工具，考虑土地使用问题和限制，并提供一种定量方法来评估可再生设施选址的适宜性，本质上是跨学科的，必须考虑(i)对农业、水质、沿海和海洋环境以及其他自然资源的影响；（ii）排放抵销对空气质素的好处；（三）能源组合多样化；经济影响和社会正义问题；（六）法律上的考虑和制约。更广泛的影响该项目将为JMU和UM之间的合作研究提供动力，随后将为新的案例研究提供源源不断的信息，并为两个合作机构之间的世界级跨学科合作研究提供难得的发展机会。这个项目和所有未来合作的一个重要组成部分包括研究生和本科生的国际研究培训。

AbstractOISE-0832751Jonathan Miles, James Madison U.This award is made as part of OISE?s NSF International Planning Visit program and will support travel on two occasions of a team of faculty members from James Madison University (JMU) to meet with their counterparts at the University of Malta (UM) in Malta for the purpose of planning and initiating an interdisciplinary, collaborative research project on ?Land Use Considerations and Siting Assessment for Renewable Energy Facilities.? (The term ?siting? is used within the renewable energy industry to denote the process of identifying, evaluation, and selecting the best locations for renewable energy systems with the intention of minimizing impacts to water supply and other resources.) This focus is especially timely given the challenges that exist in both nations with respect to siting of large-scale renewable energy projects and the opportunity for an interdisciplinary and trans-national research team to develop appropriate tools and strategies that could further a broad understanding how to optimize renewable energy sites. The visits proposed will enable a diverse team of JMU and UM faculty members to engage, in Malta, in a structured program of research preparation that would be difficult to undertake by remote means. In particular, these visits will entail in depth discussions for the purpose of outlining and organizing the collaborative research project, to identify and assess the appropriate resources on the UM campus, and to visit the sites throughout Malta, where parts of the research project will be conducted.INTELLECTUAL MERITThis project will lead to development of a tool that considers land use issues and constraints, and provides a quantitative means to assess the suitability of sites for renewable facilities, is inherently interdisciplinary and must factor (i) impacts on agriculture, water quality, the coastal and marine environments and other natural resources; (ii) benefits to air quality by virtue of emission offsets; (iii) diversification of the energy portfolio; (iv) economic impacts and social justice concerns; and (vi) legal considerations and constraints.BROADER IMPACTSThis project will provide the motivation to support collaborative research efforts between JMU and UM that will subsequently inform a steady stream of new case studies, and also provide exceptional opportunities for world-class, interdisciplinary, collaborative research between the two partnered institutions to develop. A strong component of this project and all future collaboration includes international research training for students, both graduate and undergraduate.