Individual or collective? Community investment, local taxes, and the social acceptance of wind energy in Switzerland

Economic Growth in Indonesian New Outonomous: Social-Economic Perspective

“…In addition, the case in Hungary also shows that local government transparency in tax collection can increase public compliance to pay taxes (Sipos, 2015). In Switzerland, a tax on local resources that benefits the whole community is preferred over providing opportunities for local residents to invest (Vuichard, Stauch and Dällenbach, 2019). This means, an increase or decrease in local tax revenue is an economic consequence that is received by the region from the growth of social welfare in the area.…”

“…As Bigio & Zilberman (2011) report that tax is not only related to business profits but also related to the amount of labor income employed. Vuichard, Stauch & Dällenbach (2019) have also proven that an increase in local resource taxes indicates an increase in community income. Thus, local tax revenue is an indicator of economic growth in the community in an area.…”

Explaining Factors Leading to Community Acceptance of Wind Energy. Results of an Expert Assessment

“…For European countries, numerous relevant cases can be found where a broad variety of different methods for analysis is applied. These comprise, in particular, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, targeted literature reviews, focus groups, choice experiments [35], group discussions with experts from a wide range of sectors (i.e., public and federal authorities, wind park developers, environmental associations), or in-depth analyses of opposition factors of existing energy projects through qualitative semi-structured interviews with opponents and supporters [36][37][38][39]. Additionally, outside of Europe, numerous studies were carried out including consumer analyses based on surveys delivered to a sample of people living close to energy projects, cross-national comparisons of qualitative data, abductive logic-based methodologies with primary and secondary data sources (i.e., documents and archival records, in-depth interviews and direct observation of existing cases) and critical reviews of existing policies, regulations and strategic plans adopted at different territorial levels [40][41][42][43].…”

Offshore Wind and Community Benefits in Kitty Hawk, Nc

“…Community ownership is a model where the community becomes investors in the project. Community ownership schemes allow individuals to benefit financially from the wind farm via the purchasing of shares or bonds in the wind farm (Vuichard et al, 2019). Denmark and Germany are viewed as role models in community renewable energy and both countries have legal requirements for wind developers to offer financial participation to local communities (Vuichard et al, 2019).…”

“…Community ownership schemes allow individuals to benefit financially from the wind farm via the purchasing of shares or bonds in the wind farm (Vuichard et al, 2019). Denmark and Germany are viewed as role models in community renewable energy and both countries have legal requirements for wind developers to offer financial participation to local communities (Vuichard et al, 2019). In this model, profits after taxes from the wind farm are distributed back to individuals who purchased shares in the wind farm (Breukers and Wolsink, 2007;Klain et al, 2017).…”