Distributive Justice, Community Benefits and Renewable Energy: The Case of Offshore Wind Projects

Anchustegui, Ignacio Herrera

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“…The socio-economic benefits can be huge for a community in terms of wind-farm related value creation and employment. 41 This goes beyond revenue and cost and would incorporate the notion of new wind farms as strategic decisions and a long-term socio-economic investment in a new national industry important for national employment and tax income. This possible criteria connected to national strategic decision-making is not covered in this paper.…”

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Norwegian offshore wind power—Spatial planning using multi‐criteria decision analysis

Solbrekke,

Sorteberg

2023

Wind Energy

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The Norwegian government recently agreed on the goal 30by40, which involves opening Norwegian offshore areas to host 30 GW of installed wind power by 2040. We address this goal by presenting a first mapping of wind power suitability scores (WPSS) for the entire Norwegian economic zone (NEZ) using a multi‐criteria decision analysis framework (MCDA), namely, the analytical hierarchical process (AHP) approach. We obtain WPSS considering relevant criteria like wind resources, techno‐economic aspects, social acceptance, environmental considerations, and met‐ocean constraints such as wind and wave conditions. The results starts with a baseline scenario, where the criterion importance is pairwise compared in the context of balancing economic incentives and conflicting interests. Additionally, to reveal regions that are robust to changes in criterion importance, we carry out a sensitivity analysis by introducing three additional scenarios. These scenarios represent stereotypical actors with distinct preferences for siting of wind farms: the investor, the environmentalist, and the fisherman. The results show that the southern part of the NEZ is the most suitable and robust region for offshore wind power deployment. This region receives the highest suitability category (“very high” suitability for wind power application) throughout all the scenarios. Areas in the Norwegian part of the Barents Sea and the near‐coastal areas outside mid‐Norway are also well suited regions, but these are more sensitive to the choice of criterion importance. The use of AHP within the framework of MCDA is shown to be a promising tool for pinpointing the best Norwegian offshore areas for wind power application.

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Norwegian offshore wind power—Spatial planning using multi‐criteria decision analysis

Solbrekke,

Sorteberg

2023

Wind Energy

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“…According to Anchustegui (2020), the responsible company for implementing the wind farm offers some form of retribution for the externalities imposed on the host Community, such as noise or visual impact, and brings direct benefits in addition to the positive effects of renewable energy benefits play a key role when it comes to fostering the acceptance and, ultimately, approval of renewable energy projects, serving a utilitarian purpose that goes beyond pure financial compensation to specific individuals, such as those arising from tort or non-contractual liability.…”

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Percepção dos impactos socioambientais causados por geradores eólicos no estado do Piauí, Nordeste do Brasil

Araújo,

Gorayeb

2023

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A expansão da energia eólica no Brasil trouxe benefícios, mas surgiram muitos conflitos no entorno de comunidades rurais. A pesquisa consistiu em entender as respostas da comunidade em relação à aceitação/rejeição da implantação de parques eólicos na ótica da justiça processual e distributiva, na comunidade Serra dos Pereiros no Piauí. Aplicou-se um questionário com dez respostas que somaram juntas 31 variáveis. Nas análises estatísticas, com amostra populacional de 69 pessoas, utilizou- se a escala de Likert, o coeficiente alfa de Cronbach e o coeficiente de correlação de Spearman (rs). Dos resultados, cinco respostas apresentaram correlações moderadas positivas ou fortes positivas: mudança na paisagem, opinião sobre os parques eólicos, processo político de implantação dos parques eólicos, justiça do processo e compensação. Os dados mostram que o desenvolvimento de políticas que não incluam a participação direta da sociedade gera conflitos entre os diferentes níveis institucionais e problemas de ordem ambiental e social local graves.

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“…As Horbaty et al (2012) and Kerr et al (2014) point out, tangible positive effects such as local job opportunities or community payments could drive public attitudes. Direct benefits are more frequent and substantial with regard to onshore renewable energy projects as opposed to OREs (Herrera Anchustegui, 2020). In the latter case, payments are usually at the developer's discretion and consist of voluntary corporate social responsibility—mainly gifts aimed at contributing to good social or environmental causes—rather than strong benefit arrangements.…”

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Socio‐economic, legal, and political context of offshore renewable energies

Salvador

Ribeiro

2022

WIREs Energy & Environment

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Offshore renewable energies have been identified as important clean sources of energy in line with sustainable development goals. However, their use can generate conflicts with other maritime activities, as well as the protection of biodiversity and the marine environment. This article analyses the influence of regulatory frameworks and ocean governance in the implementation of such devices, from a legal-political point of view. In this sense, it studies how the law of the sea addresses potential international conflicts between ocean energy installations and other activities (e.g., navigation) developed by other states. It also studies the importance of preventive legal tools-marine spatial planning, strategic environmental assessment, and environmental impact assessmentto anticipate and reduce clashes with other sea users as well as environmental damages that may be caused by these structures. Likewise, this research analyses different national consent procedures and legal-economic supporting schemes, to identify those that boost the implementation of such projects more quickly. Finally, the relevance of enhancing the involvement of affected coastal communities and local stakeholders in the decision-making processes, as well as in the socio-economic benefits of offshore renewable energy projects to increase their social acceptance, is also emphasized.

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Distributive Justice, Community Benefits and Renewable Energy: The Case of Offshore Wind Projects

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Norwegian offshore wind power—Spatial planning using multi‐criteria decision analysis

Norwegian offshore wind power—Spatial planning using multi‐criteria decision analysis

Percepção dos impactos socioambientais causados por geradores eólicos no estado do Piauí, Nordeste do Brasil

Socio‐economic, legal, and political context of offshore renewable energies

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