Public acceptance of CCS system elements: A conjoint measurement

Wallquist, Lasse; Seigo, Selma L׳Orange; Visschers, Vivianne; Siegrist, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2011.11.008

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“…If indeed this is the case, what impacts will these have on the bioenergy industry's ability to gain a social licence to operate (SLO), sufficient enough to enable the technology to gain traction where positive climatic mitigation outcomes are possible? There is a belief that public perceptions will indeed impact the success of bioCCS, with negative perceptions of CCS and/or biomass considered likely to stall the technology's uptake as well as increase transport and storage costs [83]. However, biomass and CCS in combination are expected to gain greater public support than the technologies might achieve individually [84].…”

Section: Social Science Insights and Future Areas Of Research For Bioccsmentioning

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Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

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BioCCS is a technology gaining support as a possible emissions reduction policy option to address climate change. The process entails the capture, transport and storage of carbon dioxide produced during energy production from biomass. Globally, the most optimistic energy efficiency scenarios cannot avoid an average temperature increase of +2 °C without bioCCS. Although very much at the commencement stage, bioCCS demonstration projects can provide opportunity to garner knowledge, achieve consensus and build support around the technology's properties. Yet many challenges face the bioCCS industry, including no guarantee biomass will always be from sustainable sources or potentially result in carbon stock losses. The operating environment also has no or limited policies, regulations and legal frameworks, and risk and safety concerns abound. Some state the key problem for bioCCS is cultural, lacking in a 'community of support', awareness and credibility amongst its own key stakeholders and the wider public. Therefore, the industry can benefit from the growing social science literature, drawing upon other energy and resource based industries with regard to social choice for future energy options. To this end, the following scoping review was conducted in order to ascertain gaps in existing public perception and acceptance research focusing on bioCCS.

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Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

2015

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“…The large majority of acceptance research considers just one orat best -a few similar technologies (e.g., a set of renewable technologies) but does not take the whole range of relevant power technologies into account. Several studies examined the public perception and acceptance of nuclear energy [9,10], the capture and storage (CCS) technology a [11][12][13], wind energy [6,14] and photovoltaics (PV) [15] or a set of renewable energies [16,17]. Acceptance research for fossil fuels such as coal or natural gas plants, however, is rare.…”

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Public evaluation of electricity technologies and future low-carbon portfolios in Germany and the USA

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2013

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background: This paper aims to create insights into people's technology preferences in striving to achieve a low-carbon electricity generation system. The investigation seeks to analyze informed rather than mere opinion-based public preferences towards electricity technologies and portfolios against the background of climate mitigation options. In order to compare Germany with its strong renewable energy focus with a more fossil fuel-and nuclear-oriented country, the study presented replicates a research carried out in the USA in order to deliver data enabling such comparison. A special focus is on assessing attitudes and opinions towards carbon capture and storage as a low-carbon technology option.

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“…The same is true for stranded assets as multiple bio-options are deployed over the century. Lastly, the modeling exercise abstracts from issues pertaining to social inertia and public acceptance in particular: specifically pipelines and storage in connection with fossil-based emission sources have been met with significant resistance from residents in affected areas (Wallquist et al 2012).…”

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Optimal mitigation strategies with negative emission technologies and carbon sinks under uncertainty

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In recent years a body of literature has arisen on the topic of how to compose the optimal portfolio of mitigation options. The focus has been mainly on options involving shifts from high-to low-or even negative-carbon technologies. Natural sinks play an important role in any attempt to stabilize atmospheric CO 2 and usually enter as a constant term in the overall carbon budget. In this paper, we introduce natural sinks to the carbon management problem and analyze the implications for negative emission technology deployment and the overall mitigation strategy. Amongst other sensitivity analyses, we also investigate the impact of uncertainty in the carbon sink, which we find to raise the importance of negative emissions in the mitigation portfolio significantly lowering the cost of the policy mix.

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Public acceptance of CCS system elements: A conjoint measurement

Cited by 114 publications

References 31 publications

Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

Public evaluation of electricity technologies and future low-carbon portfolios in Germany and the USA

Optimal mitigation strategies with negative emission technologies and carbon sinks under uncertainty

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