Spatial Barriers for Wind Turbine Placement in the Netherlands by Hexagon

Hexagonal grid data for the Netherlands assesses barriers to wind energy development. Each hexagon is evaluated for the presence and strictness of obstacles, categorized under regimes from 'No obstacles' to 'No'. The data likely contains geospatial attributes detailing specific barriers per hexagon, provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.

Use Cases

• Identify potential sites for wind turbine installation based on the strictest regulatory regime per hexagon.
• Analyze the distribution and severity of spatial barriers to wind energy development across the Netherlands.
• Model theoretical wind energy capacity by converting hexagon counts into turbine numbers based on size classes mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Provides a standardized spatial unit (hexagon) for consistent analysis across the country.
• Explicitly defines three wind turbine size classes (small, medium, large) with conversion factors per hexagon.
• Categorizes regulatory barriers into four distinct regimes, offering a clear ordinal scale.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The map does not account for pre-existing wind turbines, location-dependent design criteria, or zoning plans.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Spatial analysis of barriers applied to a hexagonal grid covering the Netherlands.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Netherlands