Public opinion on renewable energy technologies in Portugal

Ribeiro, Fernando José da Silva Paiva; Ferreira, Paula Varandas; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de; Braga, Ana Cristina

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2013.10.074

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“…Focussing on wind power, Bell et al [10] and Musall & Kuik [9] present similar findings for the UK and southeast Germany respectively. Interestingly, Ribeiro et al [21] report for Portugal that, with the exception of biomass, they could not find major differences between RES acceptance on an abstract vs. a local level. The lack of local acceptance is often explained by the NIMBY ('not in my backyard') phenomenon following the idea that people have a positive attitude towards something (e.g., RES expansion) until they are personally confronted with the consequences (e.g., a RES or grid project in their neighbourhood) and that they then behave oppositional for selfish reasons.…”

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“…Further details are provided in section 2.1. Moreover, the acceptance of RES as a whole has been analysed in literature [7,21]. Focussing on individual technologies, Van der Horst [4], Guo et al [6], Bell et al [10] and Wolsink [22] studied the acceptance of wind energy whereas Battaglini et al [11], Devine-Wright [13], Ciupuliga & Cuppen [14] and Cotton & Devine-Wright [23] study the acceptance of grid infrastructure.…”

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Public acceptance and preferences related to renewable energy and grid expansion policy: Empirical insights for Germany

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The rapid expansion of renewable energy sources (RES) in many European countries brings about transmission grid expansion requirements. While the transition towards RESbased energy systems is largely perceived positively in general, locally both RES and grid expansion are often confronted with a lack of public acceptance. Using Germany as a case study, we analyse public acceptance of energy infrastructure and its main drivers on local vs. national levels. For this purpose, we conducted a nationally representative survey. Our results show that, on a national level, the acceptance of RES is very high and there is also a high acceptance of grid expansion if it helps to increase the share of RES in the system. In terms of local acceptance problems that may arise for most considered technologies, concerns about landscape modification turn out to be the main driving factor. Moreover, the distance between places of residence and places of energy infrastructure construction is crucial. While acceptance or rejection of technologies will never be entirely tangible or explicable, we find the explicability of rejections to be lowest for new technologies. Finally, age and education turn out to be the most relevant socio-demographic variables determining the participants' acceptance. Bertsch, V., Hall, M., Weinhardt, C., & Fichtner, W. (2016). Public acceptance and preferences related to -2 -renewable energy and grid expansion policy: Empirical insights for Germany. Energy, 114,[465][466][467][468][469][470][471][472][473][474][475][476][477]

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Public acceptance and preferences related to renewable energy and grid expansion policy: Empirical insights for Germany

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“…A menor implantação da energia solar parece jogar a favor da sua aceitação, uma vez que alguns estudos têm revelado um efeito de saturação da implantação de energia eólica na perceção das populações (Kaldellis, 2005). Isto reflete-se, na literatura sobre implantação de energia solar, numa escassez relativa de controvérsias e num elevado nível de aceitação face a outras formas de energia renovável (Carlisle et al, 2014;Kaldellis et al, 2013;Ribeiro et al, 2014). As referências à emergência de controvérsias tendem também a desenvolver-se em torno de prioridades diferentes.…”

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Paisagem, tecnologia e desenvolvimento local: a central solar da Amareleja

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Resumo No estudo dos impactos locais das energias renováveis tem sido dada pouca atenção a tecnologias com menor peso no sistema energético. Este trabalho procura colmatar esta lacuna, através de um estudo de caso sobre a central fotovoltaica da Amareleja, assente em entrevistas com stakeholders e residentes e análise de documentação. A central tem a particularidade de ser parte de uma iniciativa municipal de desenvolvimento regional assente nas energias renováveis. Contudo, apesar de um processo de implantação pouco controverso e de um impacto importante a nível identitário, não atingiu muitas das expectativas dos habitantes a nível económico.Palavras-chave: energias renováveis, energia solar, controvérsias sociotécnicas, perceções locais.Abstract The study of the local impacts of renewable energy has given little attention to less implemented technologies. This work seeks to bridge this gap through a case study on the photovoltaic plant in Amareleja, based on interviews with stakeholders and residents and documentation analysis. The plant has the distinction of being part of a local initiative for regional development based on renewable energy. However, although the deployment process faced few controversy and there was some impact on the local identity, the project did not reach the expectation of the population in terms of economic development.Keywords: renewable energies, solar energy, sociotechnical controversies, local perceptions.Résumé L'étude des impacts locaux des énergies renouvelables n'accorde guère d'attention aux technologies qui ont moins de poids sur le système énergétique. Ce travail vise à colmater cette lacune, au travers d'une étude de cas sur la centrale photovoltaïque d'Amareleja, à partir d'entretiens avec les différentes parties prenantes et les habitants et d'une analyse de documents. La centrale a la particularité de s'inscrire dans une initiative municipale de développement régional axée sur les énergies renouvelables. Cependant, malgré un processus d'implantation peu controversé et un impact important au plan identitaire, cette centrale n'a pas vraiment répondu aux attentes des habitants sur le plan économique.

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“…As such they can significantly contribute to the local residents' welfare in Portugal. Remarkably, Ribeiro et al [44] state that public opinion is less familiar with biomass and as such it is less supported. heating production in group 2, all in % of GFEC [52,54].…”

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“…In Portugal Gouveia et al [43] state that the importance of RES in the Portuguese electricity generation sector has grown strongly, mainly due to a considerable increase in the share of onshore wind. According to Ribeiro et al [44], technologies for solar power plants and hydro power are regarded as the most desirable for further development in near future, provided that they are applied on a local scale. As such they can significantly contribute to the local residents' welfare in Portugal.…”

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Five years left – How are the EU member states contributing to the 20% target for EU's renewable energy consumption; the role of woody biomass

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The European Union has set ambitious targets of raising the share of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources from 20% by 2020 to 27% by 2030. The aim of this paper is to assess the role of woody biomass in renewable energy as gross final energy consumption in the European Union (the EU-28). The paper identifies leading and lagging countries in biomass development by focusing on their current biomass use and forecasts future perspectives. The research compares and evaluates the role of biomass in renewable energy in the EU-28 focusing on countries' potential resources and policy support. The study shows that all countries are making efforts to reach the 20% target in 2020 and exhibit a trend of increasing renewable energy as gross final energy consumption towards the new target of 2030. Solid biomass plays an important role in reaching the EU's renewable energy targets. The majority of the EU-28 countries are close to reaching their national renewable energy targets and show a very attractive biomass development. Unless energy consumption decreases however, some member states will face serious problems in reaching their renewable energy target in 2020. Following our analysis, the largest problems occur in those MS having a relative highenergy consumption pattern: France, Germany and the United Kingdom. It is unlikely that they can comply with expected renewable energy demand, unless they mobilize more woody biomass from their available domestic potential (France, Germany) or considerably increase their woody biomass imports (mostly wood pellets) from elsewhere (United Kingdom). Keywords Definitions Bioenergy: Bioenergy refers to energy derived from biofuels. Biomass: Refers to the biodegradable fraction of products, waste and residues from agricultural (including vegetal and animal substances), forestry and related industries, as well as the biodegradable fraction of industrial and municipal waste.  Bioliquids. Refers to the liquid fuels made from biomass for energy purposes other than transport (i.e.heating and electricity). Gross inland consumption of energy (GIC) is the first aggregate in the national energy balances. It refers to "apparent" consumption and is derived from the formula that takes into account primary production, exports, imports and stock changes. It includes the primary energy from fossil fuels, from renewable energies (biomass, wind, solar, hydro), derived heat and trade of electrical energy. Gross final energy consumption (GFEC) is calculated from national energy balances. GFEC starts with the GIC data, after which transformation losses, distribution losses and own consumption of electricity and heat within the energy sector are subtracted. The GFEC data can be divided over the sectors involved in the energy consumption, after the subtraction of non-energy consumption (e.g. use of cokes for chemical products). At the end, we remain with final energy consumption by industry, transport and households [3].4

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Public opinion on renewable energy technologies in Portugal

Cited by 107 publications

References 15 publications

Public acceptance and preferences related to renewable energy and grid expansion policy: Empirical insights for Germany

Public acceptance and preferences related to renewable energy and grid expansion policy: Empirical insights for Germany

Paisagem, tecnologia e desenvolvimento local: a central solar da Amareleja

Five years left – How are the EU member states contributing to the 20% target for EU's renewable energy consumption; the role of woody biomass

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