Abstract
One of the main drivers for acceptance of wind turbines by the public is their level of visual impacts. While recent studies have focused on estimating the welfare loss of visual impacts from wind turbines, a large share of the studies has used no or very simple visualisations of the visual impacts at stake. These studies thus rely on the cognitive skills of the respondents to imagine wind turbines of different sizes and at different locations. Based on a theoretical argument, we propose a framework for classifying different visualisation types and utilise it to review recent Stated Preferences (SP) wind power studies. The review is subsequently used to discuss the use of visualisations of wind turbines in the SP studies, highlighting the frequent choice of not using visualisations, as well as the need to raise the bar when designing scenario descriptions for valuation of the visual impacts of wind turbines.