Ocioeconomic, Environmental and Technological Impacts Caused by the Installation of Wind Parks in Ceará

Abstract

The State of Ceará stands out in the process of producing energy from the wind because it has a privileged geographical position in the generation of wind energy. This work consists in presenting the environmental, social, economic and technological impacts caused by the implementation and operation of the Wind Power Plants in the coast of Ceará through a comparative analysis between the Wind Farms of Beberibe and Fleixeiras I. The main socioenvironmental impacts detected were: fauna and flora, wear and tear of access roads, production of noise, de-characterization of the natural landscape, limitation of the right to "come and go", cracks in houses. The economic impacts were more significant during the construction of the parks, gradually decreasing over the years. In the technological aspects, it can be seen that the bigger the height of the towers and the diameter of the rotor, the greater the amount of energy generated. This research had characteristic of descriptive and exploratory research, describing them from the qualitative and quantitative methods. Studies were needed to understand the impacts of the wind energy source, as well as to suggest alternatives to mitigate the worsening global warming caused by the greenhouse effect on the planet.

Keywords:
wind energy; coast of Ceará; impacts; climate changes