Renewable Energy Projects: Acceptance Risks and Their Management

Marion Hitzeroth and Andreas Megerle

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013, vol. 27, issue C, 576-584

Abstract: Current renewable energy projects are increasingly afflicted with the challenge of an apparently alternating acceptance by concerned parties. Attitude parameters adopted by parts of these social groups which especially at the outset of such planning processes seemingly tend towards “acceptance” such as “incertitude” or “conditional acceptance” represent above-average pronounced risk factors in view of the project proponent's planning and cost certainty. This is even more true if either the expected conditions or the corresponding compensation measures for these social groups are not or cannot be implemented in a perceptible manner, bringing the latter to change to negative attitudes towards the project in a way which often surprises the project proponent. Based on the experiences gathered during the analysis of a case example (on a renewable energy infrastructure project in Germany), the present work introduces possible instruments allowing to identify these particularly high-risk social groups and discusses assets and drawbacks of different management strategies to handle various types of acceptance risks. It thereby also becomes clear that the outcomes always need to be interpreted beyond the background of the specific local and regional context respectively.

Keywords: Public acceptance; Economic impacts; Acceptance risk management; Renewable energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.07.022

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