Identifying the determinants of community acceptance of renewable energy technologies: The case study of a wind energy project from Tunisia

Explaining Factors Leading to Community Acceptance of Wind Energy. Results of an Expert Assessment

“…Untransparent decision-making processes that neglect fairness principles in planning and decision-making especially concerning environmental issues, can negatively affect the attitudes of people which are generally positive towards the use of renewable energy including wind [40]. Another important finding which we share with research outside the European context, relates to the role of renewable energy communities: a community based approach towards wind energy deployment is strongly recommended to achieve greater levels of local acceptance [41].…”

“…These comprise, in particular, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, targeted literature reviews, focus groups, choice experiments [35], group discussions with experts from a wide range of sectors (i.e., public and federal authorities, wind park developers, environmental associations), or in-depth analyses of opposition factors of existing energy projects through qualitative semi-structured interviews with opponents and supporters [36][37][38][39]. Additionally, outside of Europe, numerous studies were carried out including consumer analyses based on surveys delivered to a sample of people living close to energy projects, cross-national comparisons of qualitative data, abductive logic-based methodologies with primary and secondary data sources (i.e., documents and archival records, in-depth interviews and direct observation of existing cases) and critical reviews of existing policies, regulations and strategic plans adopted at different territorial levels [40][41][42][43].…”

Towards Self-Sustainable Island Grids through Optimal Utilization of Renewable Energy Potential and Community Engagement

“…Trust, a fundamental concept of interpersonal relationships and collaboration, is positively related to volunteering which is a basic type of participation and is shown to be crucial for economic decision making, such as financial investments [10,13]. Trust between local people and stakeholders that take projects forward is essential [14], especially if information is handled with transparency and accuracy throughout all stages of the project [15].…”

“…Environmental reasons, e.g., climate protection and sustainability, climate awareness, have been found to be among the motivations for collective sustainable energy projects. People involved in community energy projects are generally more receptive to ethical and environmental commitment and question their behaviour with respect to energy consumption and carbon emissions reduction [13,20,21]. With respect to sustainable community energy projects, environmental attitudes are an influential positive factor and an important motivator for collective energy action [22][23][24].…”

Iranian agriculture advisors' perception and intention toward biofuel: Green way toward energy security, rural development and climate change mitigation

“…Recognizing the need for energy transition, many countries, including developed, developing and transition economies, settled ambitious targets to develop alternative energy sources. These targets will allow achievement of energy security targets as well as to reduce pressure on environment and to reach targets of climate change mitigation (Hammami & Triki, 2016;Hossain et al, 2017;Mobtaker et al, 2016;Moosavian et al, 2013). Renewable energy sources will be alternative to fossil fuel energy sources which will enable the satisfaction of growing energy demand without greenhouse gas emission (Bakhtiyari et al, 2017).…”