Attached below the website of an organization that opposes generation of wind energy.

After following the subject of energy alternatives since 1993, I concluded that the utilization of energy is governed by politics, economics, and technology(respectively). As you know, scientific findings can be twisted & distorted if powerful persons desired that.

The status quo of energy trends & usage has served some influential persons & companies to a very large extent over the years. They think that it has to continue as such & they even deny that they harmed the environment. In other words, there are real hurdles in front of those who would like to change the current energy scene. 

https://www.wind-watch.org/

Dear Jan

Several generation sources compete with the wind power in a cost basis. Depending on how the energetic a wind site is, the wind power might not be of great interest particularly in less windy areas. Of course, my opinion is that most of these oppositions against wind energy is due to the advantages of other energy resources. The following references have discussed in detail why the wind power is less popular compared with other energy sources.

1-Haggett, C., 2011. Understanding public responses to offshore wind power. Energy Policy, 39(2), pp.503-510.

2-Toke, D., 2002. Wind power in UK and Denmark: can rational choice help explain different outcomes?. Environmental politics, 11(4), pp.83-100.

In addition, the following link helps you to find more why wind power is not welcomed:

http://www.advantagesofsolarenergy4all.com/disadvantages-of-wind-energy.html

I hope these references help you

Warm Regards

I would focus on papers evaluate social and environmental impacts of wind energy. The authors tend to explore the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy and tradeoffs of social, environmental and economic sustainability.

Science papers usually keep a distance from opposing or supporting something; they rather introduce the facts. Serious studies are more or less objective and let the readers judge the credibility and make their mind to support or oppose something.

http://windeis.anl.gov/guide/concern/index.cfm

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5%5B315:EIOWED%5D2.0.CO;2/full

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421501000635

Compare renewables:

http://resources-cf.toolboxforteachers.com/Core/PBL/PBL_new-edits/6th-Enviro%20Impact%203-ss.pdf

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148108002073

Thanks for all these helpful suggestions so far. What I am specifically looking for is articles where they manage to break down the opposition according to the relevance of different impacts. For example in an article by Stephen Gibbons the main effect seems to be visible impacts:

"All the results point in the same direction, regardless of the specific research design. Wind farms reduce house prices in postcodes where the turbines are visible…. …Evidence from comparisons with places close to wind farms, but where wind farms are less visible suggests that most if not all of these price reductions are directly attributable to turbine visibility. The effects of wind farms on the prices of locations with limited visibility are statistically insignificant or even positive – providing some indication that wind farms generate some local benefits,"

http://personal.lse.ac.uk/gibbons/papers/windfarms%20and%20Houseprices%20November%202013%20v5.pdf

I find this result interesting, as at least in my eyes wind turbines are beautiful, and I would have thought that the opposition stems mainly from noise impacts. But clearly beauty in in the eye of the beholder.

https://kunnasblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/15/tuulivoima-kaunistaa/

Hello Jan,

In fact the wind energy is a sustainable renewable source. Therefore there is no real opposition to the wind energy; however, there some technical, and economical challenges associated with the wind enegy at various scales of applications.

The major challenges include:

- resource characteristics: high variability, probable intermittency, moderate predictability...

- technological challenges: low dispatchability, moderate controllability, low inertia,...

- high costs especially for offshore installation....

... etc

You may use these issues as keywords to search the Google scholar; you will find many articles.

You may also refer to the following publications

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276832443_Stability-based_minimization_of_load_shedding_in_weakly_interconnected_systems_for_real-time_applications

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed_EL-Shimy/publications?pubType=book