Accounting for taste? Analysing diverging public support for energy sources in Great Britain

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

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2019.101226

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“…All the significance levels were above 0,05. Thus, we do not find the support for the hypothesis 1.The following graph (4) and statistics present the comprehensive results for the hypothesis 2. From Figures 3 and 4 it follows that the confidence intervals for means intersect in all the cases, so, significant differences in mean values are not expected.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…However, the public acceptance of the renewable energy sources (RES) might vary with the age, income, and, most notably, the level of education [3,4]. Up until now, education in schools and universities has hardly been fully sustainable, meaning it has been reflecting such issues as sustainability and sustainable growth and development [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sustainable education: altering the opinions on renewable energy sources

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Our paper studies the link between the education and the people’s opinions and views of the renewable energy sources (RES). We employ the representative data (1026 respondents) from the Czech Republic. Our empirical model did not reveal any associations between the subjective opinion on the respondents about the possibility to replace electricity generation from conventional sources (such as coal-fired or gas-fired power plants, nuclear power plants or large hydroelectric power plants) with the electricity from wind, solar radiation and biomass combustion. In addition, there seemed to be no correlation between the usage of renewable energy in the Czech Republic and the education of the respondents. However, there are strong significant association between the level of education of the respondents and the existence of opinions on the RES. Higher education means higher probability of the existence of such an opinion. Almost one third of the respondents with primary education did not have an opinion on the topic. This might be caused by an increasing interest in RES of people with higher level of education as they are likely to be more open to all discussions on the socially relevant issues in general. The lack of association between which opinion people have and their level of education is likely to indicate the marginal role of explaining the importance of RES in education.

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“…Table 1 presents a summary of the findings from some previous related studies. The results of a survey of the general public asking about the preference of each power source were analyzed for the United States [22], Turkey [23], Switzerland [24], and Great Britain [25]. Information on the appropriate mix among power generation sources in Tunisia was derived by applying the multi-criteria decision analysis technique [26].…”

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“…First, so far as the authors know, this article is the first to analyze the proper ratio of NG-fired generation as judged by people. On the other hand, some previous studies are found in the literature that address the role of NG-fired generation to reduce CO 2 emissions [12][13][14] or analyze the proportion of renewable energy generation [22][23][24][25][26][27].…”

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Public Preference for Increasing Natural Gas Generation for Reducing CO2 Emissions in South Korea

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To meet international efforts to prevent climate change, the South Korean government is seeking to transform its main power source from coal to natural gas (NG), which emits less carbon dioxide (CO2) than coal. The government needs information about public preferences for increasing NG-fired generation. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide the government with this information by gathering the data on public preferences for increasing NG-fired generation for reducing CO2 emissions, analyzing these data, and obtaining the implications from the analysis. To this end, a survey of 1000 people, after explaining the merits and demerits of NG-fired power, were asked to determine the proper ratio of NG-fired generation by choosing one of six examples: lower than 10%, 10%–20%, 20%–30%, 30%–40%, 40%–50%, and higher than 50%. An interval data model was employed to deal with the data. The average value of the ratio was estimated to be 26.7% with statistical significance, which is greater than the actual value of 22.2% from 2017. Finally, whether and how much some variables such as education level, age, gender, and income level of the respondent affected their preferences for NG-fired generation were investigated.

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“…On a parallel track, social scientific literature to date mostly focuses on assessing citizen preferences for individual technologies or technology mixes without any spatial dimensions [42][43][44][45][46]. Since citizens show ever-increasing preferences for renewable technologies [46][47][48] and since most renewable technologies are needed anyway to reach ambitious transition targets, limited useful conclusions can be drawn from these generic technology preferences. Technology location is a factor that also contributes to citizen preferences, for example, when wind power is perceived positively elsewhere, but not in one's own community [49,50].…”

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Efficiency versus Equity in Spatial Siting of Electricity Generation: Citizen Preferences in a Serious Board Game in Switzerland

2020

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Energy transitions around the world will change the spatial fingerprint of the electricity sector, but there is a lack of studies on citizen preferences for siting the future mix of electricity technologies. Using the case of Switzerland in 2035, we present a serious board game to form and elicit citizen preferences for spatial siting of a full mix of electricity technologies and we test this game with 44 participants in the city of Zurich. The game proves to help elicit valid preferences of the participants and lead to measurable learning effects about this complex, multi-dimensional topic. The results show that these 44 participants prefer a diverse mix of renewable technologies for Switzerland in 2035. In terms of siting, these participants consistently choose the efficiency strategy, where new plants are concentrated in the areas where they produce most electricity at least cost, in contrast to the strategy of regional equity, where all Swiss regions would equally build new generation and share the benefits and burdens of the energy transition.

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Accounting for taste? Analysing diverging public support for energy sources in Great Britain

Cited by 24 publications

References 56 publications

Sustainable education: altering the opinions on renewable energy sources

Sustainable education: altering the opinions on renewable energy sources

Public Preference for Increasing Natural Gas Generation for Reducing CO2 Emissions in South Korea

Efficiency versus Equity in Spatial Siting of Electricity Generation: Citizen Preferences in a Serious Board Game in Switzerland

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