Future acceptance of wind energy production: Exploring future local acceptance of wind energy production in a Swiss alpine region

Spiess, Harry; Lobsiger-Kägi, Evelyn; Carabias-Hütter, Vicente; Marcolla, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2015.06.042

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“…However, this does not mean that there is significant acceptance of concrete plants for the production of renewable energy at the local level. In fact, the construction of hydropower plants or wind farms often face strong opposition [23,42,66]. Some of these projects have already been stopped or are facing contestation.…”

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“…In the context of global energy transition from non-renewable to renewable energy sources, there has been widespread documentation of social acceptance of renewable energy projects [19] such as wind [20][21][22][23], biomass [24,25], and solar energy [26][27][28]. Surprisingly, the literature has poorly documented research on social acceptance of hydropower projects, particularly in economically developed countries [13,29].…”

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Social Acceptance of a Multi-Purpose Reservoir in a Recently Deglaciated Landscape in the Swiss Alps

Kellner

2019

Sustainability

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Climate change impacts such as shrinking glaciers and decreasing snow cover are expected to cause changes in the water balance throughout the 21st century. New proglacial lakes in recently deglaciated areas could be used for mitigation measures such as hydropower production and adaptation measures to temporarily retain water and transfer it seasonally to compensate for seasonal water scarcity. Such multi-purpose reservoirs could counterbalance the water currently provided by glaciers and the seasonal snowpack. However, new dam projects often face various conflicts due to their impact on nature, biodiversity, and the landscape. This article presents the determinants for social acceptance of the first reservoir in a recently deglaciated landscape in the Swiss Alps. Three main determinants were identified: (1) the forthcoming popular vote on the national Swiss Energy Strategy 2050; (2) the participatory process, which contains a polycentric design; and (3) the project area, which does not yet have protected status. The three determinants facilitate social acceptance of the dam project, but lead to less attention on using the stored water for multiple services. These findings have implications on sustainable development, because dams in recently deglaciated areas support the transition to renewable energy sources, but transform a natural resource system into a hydroelectric landscape.

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Social Acceptance of a Multi-Purpose Reservoir in a Recently Deglaciated Landscape in the Swiss Alps

Kellner

2019

Sustainability

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“…9 Denmark started to foster RES in the 8 By choosing country-level measures to reflect legitimacy, we ignore that legitimacy may also materialize at the regional or local level, in particular for wind power (e,g. Spiess et al 2015). Detrimental effects of wind power at the local level may include noise disturbance or visual intrusion or visual impact on the landscape.…”

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Effects of policies on patenting in wind-power technologies

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This paper explores the effects of policies and other factors driving innovation in wind power technologies in twelve OECD countries over more than two decades. Patent counts are used as an indicator for innovation. The factors considered are generally derived from the systems of innovation literature. Count data econometric model were used for the estimations. The suggest that patenting in wind power technology is positively related to public R&D in wind power (reflecting supply-side policy), the stock of wind capacity (reflecting learning effects), the number of patents per capita (reflecting a country's innovative capacity), and the share of Green party voters (reflecting the legitimacy of the technology). In particular, the presence of production or capacity targets for wind power or renewable energy sources and a stable policy environment (reflecting policy process) appear to be favourable for patenting wind power technologies. These results are robust to various model specifications, distributional assumptions, and alternative classifications of wind power technologies in the patent search

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“…In the literature, qualitative studies differ from quantitative studies with regards to which factors are considered most important for wind farm acceptance. For example, Spiess et al (2015) found questions of aesthetics, technical performance and economic feasibility as crucial for acceptance in Swiss focus group discussions. Hall et al (2013) found trust, distributional justice, procedural justice and place attachment as the common themes in qualitative interviews on seven Australian case studies.…”

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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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Future acceptance of wind energy production: Exploring future local acceptance of wind energy production in a Swiss alpine region

Cited by 30 publications

References 9 publications

Social Acceptance of a Multi-Purpose Reservoir in a Recently Deglaciated Landscape in the Swiss Alps

Social Acceptance of a Multi-Purpose Reservoir in a Recently Deglaciated Landscape in the Swiss Alps

Effects of policies on patenting in wind-power technologies

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

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