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Airborne Wind Turbine siting survey

Country selection and local siting of airborne wind turbines

Dear participant,

Thank you for taking some minutes to participate in this expert survey regarding country and site selection for the deployment of airborne wind energy (AWE) systems. The AWE industry is in its infancy, but commercial products will soon become available to this new and unexplored market. It is the goal of my TU Delft graduation research to explore the market, and determine the most appropriate nations (and regions within these nations) for AWE deployment.

Various technical, economical, political and social criteria influence the site selection of AWE systems, and some criteria might be more important than another. For a realistic analysis the relative importance of these criteria are of upmost importance. For this specific industry, the opinion of experts are most valuable and therefore about 25 experts from various backgrounds (government, industry, university and NGOs) are invited to participate in our expert survey to determine the relative importance of various criteria in country and site selection for the deployment of airborne wind energy systems.

In case you're unfamiliar with the airborne wind energy concept, please answer the questions from your wind energy expertise. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete the questionnaire. Your participation in this study is completely voluntary and you can withdraw from the survey at any point. It is very important for us to learn from your opinions.

The next page contains questions about your background. Next you'll get an example question introducing the type of questions and answers. The remaining of the survey contains 22 questions related to the importance of various criteria relevant for country and site selection for the deployment of airborne wind energy systems.

If you have questions at any time about the survey or the procedures, you may contact Ir. Jelle Wijnja at +31(0)614600251 or by email at [email protected].

Thank you very much for your time and support. Please start with the survey now by clicking on the Continue button below.

* What is your background? (multiple answers possible)

How many years of experience in Wind Energy?

How many years of experience in Airborne Wind Energy?

Other relevant experience:

What is your current function?

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Example

In this survey the pair-wise comparison method is applied. The importance of each criteria is determined with respect to the other criteria.

The following scale is applied:

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8 extremely more important
7 ..
6 very strongly more important
5 ..
4 strongly more important
3 ..
2 moderately more important
1 ..
0 equally important
-1 ..
-2 moderately less important
-3 ..
-4 strongly less important
-5 ..
-6 very strongly less important
-7 ..
-8 extremely less important

Let's try this with an example. Let's say that for choosing a car, four criteria are of importance; price, color, fuel consumption and the size. In this example we determine the importance of all criteria with respect to the size of the car. The questions and answers in this survey are of the kind:

Give the relative importance of the following criteria with respect to the size of the car.

You should fill in one of the radio buttons according to the scale explained earlier. In this example, the radio button (6) is filled. This means that you believe, that for choosing a car, the price is a very strongly more important criterion than the size.

In the next example, radio button (0) is filled. This means that you believe, that for choosing a car, the color and the size are equally important criteria.

In this example the (-7) radio button is filled. This means that you believe, that for choosing a car, the fuel consumption is in between a very strongly less important and extremely less important criterion with respect to the size of the car.

Some last words before starting the pair-wise comparison part of the survey:

1) any comments/suggestions are welcome and can be given at the bottom of each page
2) an explanation of the scale is given at the bottom of each page
3) please try to be consistent in your pair-wise comparison

Start by ranking the relative importance of the main criteria for the site selection of airborne wind turbines. These main criteria are technical, economic, political, social.

Compare the technical criteria according to its relative importance with respect to the economic criteria.

That is; which criteria is more important for the site selection of airborne wind turbines and to which extend.

And, compare the relative importance with respect to the political criteria.

And, compare the relative importance with respect to the social criteria.

Comments/Suggestions:

Scale:
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8 extremely more important
7 ..
6 very strongly more important
5 ..
4 strongly more important
3 ..
2 moderately more important
1 ..
0 equally important
-1 ..
-2 moderately less important
-3 ..
-4 strongly less important
-5 ..
-6 very strongly less important
-7 ..
-8 extremely less important

Please drag and rank according to their importance. The most important criteria on top.

	Drag your choices here to rank them
Technical Economic Political Social

Thanks for filling in the first part of the questionnaire. Next start the pair-wise comparison of the technical criteria. The technical criteria are split in two subcriteria (1) the wind climate and (2) the availability of a suitable grid system.

Compare the wind climate criterion according to its relative importance with respect to the availability of a suitable grid stem

Comments/Suggestions:

Please drag and rank according to their importance. The most important criteria on top.

	Drag your choices here to rank them
Wind climate Grid system

This finishes your technical criteria pair-wise comparison. Thanks. Next start the pair-wise comparisons of the economic criteria. The economic criteria is split into four subcriteria (1) the levelized cost of electricity of the wind turbine, (2) the current production cost of electricity , (3) the corporate tax rate and he (4) current and future prospect on the market size.

Compare the wind turbines levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) criterion according to their relative importance with respect to the current production cost of electricity in this region.

Compare the following criteria according to their relative importance with respect to the corporate tax rate in this region.

Compare the following criteria according to their relative importance with respect to the size of the market.

The size of the market is a combination of the current electricity consumptions and the prospected future growth.

Comments/Suggestions:

Please drag and rank according to their importance. The most important criteria on top.

	Drag your choices here to rank them
LCOE Electricity cost Corporate tax rate Market size

This finishes the economic criteria pair-wise comparison. Please, next start the pair-wise comparison of the social criteria. The social criteria are split into two subcriteria (1) social acceptance of wind energy, and (2) the local visual quality of the landscape.

Compare the following social acceptance of wind energy according to its relative importance with respect to the local visual quality of the landscape.

Comments/Suggestions:

Next we compare the subcriteria of the social acceptance criteria. This criteria is split into (1) public acceptance and (2) market acceptance. The market acceptance is a degree in which wind energy is integrated into the market and expressed as the current installed capacity of wind energy.

Compare the public acceptance according to its relative importance with respect to the market acceptance.

Comments/Suggestions:

Scale:

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8 extremely more important
7 ..
6 very strongly more important
5 ..
4 strongly more important
3 ..
2 moderately more important
1 ..
0 equally important
-1 ..
-2 moderately less important
-3 ..
-4 strongly less important
-5 ..
-6 very strongly less important
-7 ..
-8 extremely less important

Please drag and rank according to their importance. The most important criteria on top.

	Drag your choices here to rank them
Market acceptance Public acceptance Landscape visual quality

This finishes your social criteria pair-wise comparison. Please, next start the final set of pair-wise comparisons: the political criteria. The political are split into five subcriteria (1) current and prospected future electricity mix of the nation, (2) the governmental (financial) support regimes for renewable energy, (3) the political risk, (4) the level of intellectual property right protection, and (5) the ease of doing business.

First compare the current and prospected future electricity mix of the nation with respect its relative importance with respect to the governmental (financial) support regimes for renewable energy (RE).

Compare these criteria according to their relative importance with respect to the political risk. The political risk includes risks associated with the political stability, the risk of terrorism, the level of human rights and resource security.

Compare these criteria according to their relative importance with respect to the level of intellectual property (IP) protection .

And finally compare these criteria according to their relative importance with respect to the ease of doing business .

The ease of doing business is measured with the complexity associated with building permits and the level of investor protection.

Comments/Suggestions:

Please drag and rank according to their importance. The most important criteria on top.

	Drag your choices here to rank them
RE support schemes Electricity mix Political risk IP protection Ease of doing business

If I've missed criteria important for the country and site selection of (airborne) wind farms, please indicate which below.

Any other comments/suggestions:

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