The role of community acceptance in planning outcomes for onshore wind and solar farms: An energy justice analysis

Roddis, Philippa; Carver, Stephen; Dallimer, Martin; Norman, Paul; Ziv, Guy

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.05.087

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“…More recent scholarship in environment [52,53], energy [54,55] and climate justice [56,57] The set of papers demonstrates the unwavering commitment of justice scholarship to quantitative (social) research design and application. We find a range of large and small scale survey-based approaches designed to explore the effectiveness of planning processes [58], social acceptability and transactions costs [59] or a comprehensive analysis of energy user experiences [60]. There are also more radical alternative quantitative assessments that examine the full costs associated with renewable and non-renewable energy sources [48,61].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Interviews and ethnographic field work has been combined with quantitative household surveys [68]. Mixed methods offer a research design that allows different methods to be applied to one or more case studies in order to study an issue from several perspectives [58].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The justice question is often reduced to the extent to which developers have successfully imposed or convinced a local community to accept both the positives and negatives of a given project. Roddis et al [58] analyse the effect that community acceptance has had on planning applications for onshore wind and solar farms in Great Britain between 1990-2017 by compiling a set of indicators for community acceptance. They investigate the relative importance of 12 statistically significant variables finding that the visual impact of low carbon infrastructure projects is of course important.…”

Section: Embracing a Holistic View Of The Community: Acceptance Mobimentioning

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“…At the global scale, a recent study used human influence as a proxy for where energy generation is occurring 11 . Both approaches are likely insufficient, as two UK-based studies showed that when location data are available, a variety of socioeconomic factors affect the siting of wind turbines and solar PV 17,18 . Sufficient location data would allow researchers to interrogate the socioeconomic drivers of renewable energy infrastructure siting at a global scale to produce probability surfaces for energy development 19 .…”

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Harmonised global datasets of wind and solar farm locations and power

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Energy systems need decarbonisation in order to limit global warming to within safe limits. While global land planners are promising more of the planet's limited space to wind and solar photovoltaic, there is little information on where current infrastructure is located. the majority of recent studies use land suitability for wind and solar, coupled with technical and socioeconomic constraints, as a proxy for actual location data. Here, we address this shortcoming. Using readily accessible OpenStreetMap data we present, to our knowledge, the first global, open-access, harmonised spatial datasets of wind and solar installations. We also include user friendly code to enable users to easily create newer versions of the dataset. Finally, we include first order estimates of power capacities of installations. We anticipate these data will be of widespread interest within global studies of the future potential and trade-offs associated with the global decarbonisation of energy systems.

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“…However, public acceptance and participation in local energy communities is not limited to the acceptance of one specific energy technology or installation, but to the acceptance of all administrative and technological elements needed for a sufficient local energy system. While numerous analyses deal with the acceptance of specific technologies (Paravantis et al, 2018;Roddis et al, 2018;Sposato and Hampl, 2018;Sovacool and Lakshmi Ratan, 2012;Yuan et al, 2011), or optimizing administrative frameworks for energy communities (Baruah and Enweremadu, 2019;Horbach and Rammer, 2018;Khan et al, 2018), existing research lacks comprehensive acceptance assessments of the entirety of local energy systems rather than just their elements. In addition to the underrepresentation of a system-level perspective in acceptance research, some promising emerging technologies are not found in previous studies.…”

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Designing local renewable energy communities to increase social acceptance: Evidence from a choice experiment in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland

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Low social acceptance to new energy infrastructure may hinder achieving the European Union's goal that 32% of energy consumption come from renewable sources. A vast literature is available on the social acceptance of specific renewable energy technologies, but existing research lacks assessments regarding comprehensive transformations to local energy systems. Moreover, the promising energy storage technology power-togas has not yet been addressed in acceptance studies. This paper fills these gaps in the acceptance literature by analysing data from a choice experiment survey with 2,000 respondents across four nations (Germany, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland). Results from the analysis show that solar farms and power-togas infrastructure increase acceptance of local energy communities, while wind farms have an ambiguous effect, and gas power plants and power lines decrease acceptance. The derived willingness to pay estimates can be used by energy policymakers to ensure acceptable price changes accompany local energy system changes. Additionally, we investigate whether stated support from political opinion leaders at the local, national, and EU levels can increase the acceptance of renewable energy systems. Results suggest that Italian choices are influenced by the opinions of EU and national governmental bodies, and that Swiss choices are sensitive to the opinions of local politicians.

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The role of community acceptance in planning outcomes for onshore wind and solar farms: An energy justice analysis

Cited by 128 publications

References 54 publications

Energy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems: Exploring key themes in interdisciplinary research

Energy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems: Exploring key themes in interdisciplinary research

Harmonised global datasets of wind and solar farm locations and power

Designing local renewable energy communities to increase social acceptance: Evidence from a choice experiment in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland

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