The WENDY project, funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe, marks two years of dedicated efforts to support sustainable wind energy development. With just one year remaining, the project is advancing its solutions to integrate social and environmental considerations into wind energy planning and deployment.
Over the past two years, WENDY has achieved several milestones, including:
- Developing the WENDY ConSite Toolbox, a decision-support tool that integrates social, ecological, and technological factors to optimise wind energy site selection.
- Creating a social acceptance interventions framework, offering recommendations to improve community engagement in wind energy projects.
- Launching the WENDY Knowledge Exchange Platform, connecting stakeholders across several countries.
- Publishing key deliverables on biodiversity impact mapping, behavioural interventions, and strategies for turbines-communities coexistence.
As WENDY enters its final year, the focus will shift towards validating these tools and frameworks, delivering policy recommendations, and ensuring the project’s results contribute to the long-term wind energy development.