doi: 10.7763/IJET.2012.V4.452
Natural Land Patterns Suitable for Wind Farms Placement in Eastern Romania. Case Study: the Padureni – Husi Area
Madalina Dana Pohrib
1
,
Lilian Niacsu
2
- 1 the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Building
- 2 the Department of Geography, Faculty of Geography
Abstract
The interest in obtaining electric energy from ecological sources has intensified in Romania since 1990. In the hilly area of Moldavian Plateau, Eastern Romania, the wind farms represent the most important ecological energy type and thus the necessity to identify the local natural patterns suitable for their placement appears. Using GIS techniques, this paper aims to automatically identify the suitable lands for wind farm placement by integrating the main landscape conditions. The outcome map shows that the fluvial divide ridges present the best conditions on over 330 ha. These stable areas are covered in a proportion of over 60% with arable lands and pastures and present very good road accessibility. Similar to the case of forests and constructed land use types, it is more difficult to change the use category. The agricultural terrains on these fluvial divides and, in a smaller proportion, on some slopes can become a viable solution for a superior economic exploitation of the terrains in this area.
Keywords
- Geomorphological conditions
- natural land suitability
- GIS
- wind farms
How to Cite
Madalina Dana Pohrib and Lilian Niacsu, "Natural Land Patterns Suitable for Wind Farms Placement in Eastern Romania. Case Study: the Padureni – Husi Area," International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 645-648, 2012. https://doi.org/ 10.7763/IJET.2012.V4.452
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Copyright © 2012 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).