Wind power park site planning project - Pikku Berliini

Authors: Ap Anttila, Khanh Dao, Marcel Schepers

This project is aimed planning a small to medium wind power park side using QGIS. The result wind power park “Pikku Berliini” with a capability of approximately 300 GWh was designed into northern parts of Finland. The site is planned considering following requirements:

• Distance to buildings (residential, commercial, industrial)
• Viewshed of the turbines
• Distance to roads and railroads
• Any nearby airports
• Nature protection and other special use areas
• Wind conditions
• Elevation and slope

Data sources

• PaiTuli service
• National Land Survey (NLS) Topographic Dataset
• National Land Survey (NLS) Elevation Model
• Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), nature conservation areas and NATURA 2000 datasets
• Wind speed data from Tuuliatlas