WIND ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY: IMPACT OF WIND FARMS ON SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND VEGETATION IN THE CAATINGA.
Climate Change, Wind Generators, Remote Sensing, Northeast, Semiarid.
The deployment of renewable energy technologies has grown significantly in recent years and is expected to accelerate worldwide. This development is essential to decarbonize energy production. However, the construction of wind farms alters the Earth's surface temperature (LST) and vegetation, modifying the properties of the Earth's surface and the disturbing comfortable Earth-atmosphere, as international literature has already shown. In this study, geolocation data and satellite images extracted from the ANEEL platform and processed through google engine will be used to quantify the impacts on the local climate and vegetation of wind farms in the caatinga of Rio Grande do Norte. The analyzes will be tested on a significant sample of towers and wind farms and seek to provide new evidence for the effects caused with improved representativeness compared to previous studies. This knowledge is important to fully understand the climate, environment and guidelines for the rapid growth and facilities of these parks and what compensatory measures, which seek a better balance and environmental sustainability, can and should be the best taken from now on.