A Review on the Environmental Impacts of Wind Energy

Abstract

Human is well aware to habituate the wind energy since thousands of years, both for producing the power and soiling the boats at land. From all renewable strength resources, wind strength is best in term of industrial evolution due to its renewability and accessibility, this electricity source is appealing. Potency for evolution and improvement is significant, and the sector’s capacity is some distance bigger than the sector’s overall strength expenditure. With yearly production of about 100 TWh, the total capacity of the world is about 60,000 MW has been located. For further development the major challenges are directly related to land usage, economy, net capacity and environment. Wind power plant requires time less than a year for their installation and construction as compare to nuclear power plant which requires 10 years for their construction and installation. Due to reduce installation cost and no fuel cost wind power is most economic. On environment the effects of wind power are considered to be positive due to potential displacement of mining activities, greenhouse effect and air pollution which are related to non-renewable energy sources. In the result the positive and negative impacts of renewable or non-renewable energy sources totally depends on the whole understanding of their environmental effects and economic effects.

Keywords: Renewability, Accessibility, Capacity, Economic, Environmental effects, Greenhouse effect