A turbine is not only a turbine: The role of social context and fairness characteristics for the local acceptance of wind power

Liebe, Ulf; Bartczak, Anna; Meyerhoff, Jürgen

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.04.043

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“…Factors include national or regional energy market characteristics, the planning and permitting process (e.g., opportunities for informal/formal participation and consultation, information about projects and the transparency of the permitting process, trust in processes and information), governance and regulatory frameworks (e.g., national/regional/local targets, plans and policies), and trust in key actors (national/regional/local decision-makers, investors). Research shows that attitudes to wind energy are more positive if the electricity produced is used nationally and contributes to industrial development than if it is exported [14,15]. Research shows that people are concerned with a fair process.…”

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“…Mapping lead times for projects in the EU in the period 2007-2008, a study found that more than 20% of wind energy projects were delayed and nearly 20% seriously threatened due to appeals from local communities [1]. An extensive literature gives insights into why such conflicts arise, pointing to factors such as the technical characteristics of projects [2,3], environmental [4][5][6], economic [5][6][7][8][9] and societal [10][11][12][13] impacts, as well as contextual factors [14][15][16][17] and specific individual characteristics (e.g., values, preferences and beliefs) [7,8,[18][19][20]. While there is considerable knowledge about the general acceptance of wind energy technology and policies [21], there is still a need for more systematic knowledge of the relative importance of the different social acceptance factors in shaping community acceptance of specific wind energy projects.…”

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Community Acceptance of Wind Energy Developments: Experience from Wind Energy Scarce Regions in Europe

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Renewable energy plays an important role in the transition to a low emission society, yet in many regions energy projects have resulted in increasing societal polarization. Based on a comprehensive literature review and a survey among stakeholders from specific regions in Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland and Spain with little prior experience with wind energy, we highlight six categories of factors that shape community acceptance of onshore wind energy development: technical characteristics of wind energy projects, environmental impacts, economic impacts, societal impacts, contextual factors and individual characteristics. We identify key similarities in acceptance-related patterns of wind energy development across the selected regions, but also important differences, highlighting the very context-specific nature of community acceptance. The findings contribute to improving the understanding of the forces, factors and relationships at play between policy frameworks and perceptions of wind energy under different conditions. We conclude by proposing policy recommendations regarding measures to increase the positive impacts and reduce the negative impacts of wind energy projects, and to strengthen existing drivers and reduce barriers to community acceptance of wind energy development.

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Community Acceptance of Wind Energy Developments: Experience from Wind Energy Scarce Regions in Europe

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“…Engineers and researchers have been continuously investigating on the improvement of wind turbines manufacturing and the reduced maintenance and operation requirements over time to push towards the development of large scale and more efficient machines (Kaldellis and Zafirakis, 2011) while Ahmed and Cameron (2014) review wind power technologies and highlight the trends of industry and challenges that these technologies will face. Williams et al (2017) show that wind power costs are expected to decrease due to technological progress but Liebe et al (2017) point out that site-specific characteristics such as landscape, circulation pattern, and seasonality that have great influences on wind stability must be properly estimated to estimate wind power. Therefore, although a considerable amount of wind power studies have been conducted (Gillenwater, 2013;Hu et al, 2013;Partridge, 2018;Shoaib et al, 2019;Thøgersen and Noblet, 2012), no single parameter can be applied universally due to the above reasons, and the estimation of turbines' power curves for different sites must be implemented and tested prior to any wind power development.…”

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An economic analysis on Taiwanese wind power and regional development

Chen

Zhang

Kung

2020

Energy Exploration & Exploitation

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Due to environmental concern, Taiwan aims to remove nuclear power from its energy structure. Since an increase in fossil fuel-based generation is foreboded by law, the lost nuclear power can only be replaced by renewable energy sources. The maritime climate and constant monsoons make wind power a feasible alternative energy source to Taiwan. With more than 300 potential wind farm sites under consideration, the government does not have enough information to determine the best sites in terms of power generation and capital investments. To explore such information, this study employs a lifecycle analysis to identify the economic components of these sites under the estimates of wind speed data and potential wind power generation obtained in our previous study. We also use a sensitivity analysis to examine the impact of construction cost, maintenance cost, energy sale, and emission trade on the site selection decision. We show that variations in construction costs and energy prices have larger impacts than greenhouse gases prices. In addition, the results point out that most sites pass the cost-benefit examination, but site rankings may alter in the face of capital rationing and climate change. Some policy implications derived from the results are discussed in detail.

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“…A planning process which is perceived as fair can lead to greater toleration of the outcome, even if it does not fully satisfy all stakeholders (Rand and Hoen 2017). It was argued that advantages and disadvantages of a wind farm should be fairly distributed among stakeholders and also include ordinary citizens (Sonnberger and Ruddat 2017), involving participatory, procedural and distributional justice (Hall et al 2013;Liebe et al 2017). Warren and McFadyen (2010) reported that compared to privately owned wind farms, community ownership increases social acceptance of wind farms.…”

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Not in my hiking trail? Acceptance of wind farms in the Austrian Alps

Brudermann

Zaman

Posch

2019

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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Large-scale wind power projects are one of the bearers of hope for a transition toward low-carbon electricity systems. The question of social acceptance of such projects near residential areas, or acceptance of the technology in general, has received significant attention in the scientific literature. Less attention has been placed on acceptability of wind farms in sparsely inhabited mountain areas; the focus of this paper therefore is on acceptance of wind farms in the Austrian Alps from the perspective of tourists and day trippers. We conducted a quantitative survey with visitors of alpine regions (n = 137) in proximity to recently constructed wind farms and identified drivers of (non-)acceptance by means of bivariate correlations and multiple linear regressions. Results indicate a high acceptance of wind technology in general and fairly high acceptance for the existing projects. Acceptance levels, however, are slightly, but significantly lower when respondents were asked to rate acceptability of wind farms in the Alps in general. Perceived benefits and reliability of wind power is the strongest predictor variable for higher acceptance levels, while annoyance through visual impact and noise is the strongest predictor variable for lower acceptance levels. Interestingly, factors like degree of information, concern regarding environmental impacts, trust in decision makers and climate change concern do not significantly affect acceptance levels. At the moment, no major opposition to wind power can be identified among tourists. Policy makers therefore should emphasize benefits of wind farms, as respective perceptions are a main predictor for acceptance. Operators should take annoyance concerns seriously, as this factor is predominant in predicting non-acceptance. Graphic abstractElectronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https ://doi.org/10.

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Cited by 122 publications

References 19 publications

Community Acceptance of Wind Energy Developments: Experience from Wind Energy Scarce Regions in Europe

Community Acceptance of Wind Energy Developments: Experience from Wind Energy Scarce Regions in Europe

An economic analysis on Taiwanese wind power and regional development

Not in my hiking trail? Acceptance of wind farms in the Austrian Alps

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