Single multi-variable KPI

WENDY emphasises the importance of considering more than just the social-technical aspects of energy citizenship, towards energy stewardship from the integrated perspective of social-technical-ecological systems (STES). The project monitors and ranks potential influencing factors, both positive and negative, that affect the social and natural environment. These factors are categorized into three main groups: social, economic, and environmental. These inputs are used to create new models and references.

From these models, a single multi-variable KPI (sM-V.KPI) is created. This KPI is used to measure the welfare that a wind farm delivers to society utilising a single score that includes all these studied aspects. It enables the calculation of values across all of Europe using a turbine with an output of approximately 5 MW.

The tool will have two tabs. The first one will allow to select the location of the turbine. We can click on the map or fill the coordinates in the form. The Wendy symbol will mark the chosen location. In a blue polygon or circle we can see the location of the closest populated area, and with the camera symbol we can see the closest site of touristic interest. In the left form we must also select the ownership model (social, hybrid or corporate) and the wind turbine model.

In the second tab, we can visualize the results. Before the calculations are made, we can adjust the weights that we give to each one of the three dimensions (social, environmental and techno-economic). We click on the button ‘COMPUTE’ and the final results are shown in the right.