Renewable electricity in the Netherlands

Junginger, Martin; Agterbosch, Susanne; Faaij, André; Turkenburg, Wim

doi:10.1016/s0301-4215(03)00063-6

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“…Barrios and Rodriguez 2004) and comparative studies of differing regulatory regimes and policy contexts (e.g. Bird et al 2005;Junginger et al 2004; Breukers and Wolsink forthcoming; Toke et al forthcoming; Menz and Vachon, 2006). It can be argued, however, that the dominant topic of social science research is the nature of public acceptance of wind farms and the search for comprehensive explanations of the dynamics of ensuring debates (Szarka, 2006).…”

Section: Public Acceptance Of Wind Farms -The Limits To Existing Resementioning

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Many ways to say ‘no’, different ways to say ‘yes’: Applying Q-Methodology to understand public acceptance of wind farm proposals

Ellis

Barry

Robinson

2007

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This paper explores the nature of public acceptance of wind farms by investigating the discourses of support and objection to a proposed offshore scheme. It reviews research into opposition to wind farms, noting previous criticisms that this has tended to provide descriptive rather than explanatory insights and as a result, has not effectively informed the policy debate. One explanation is that much of this research has been conceived within a positivist research frame, which is inadequate in dealing with the subjectivity and value-basis of public acceptance of wind farm development. The paper then takes a case study of an offshore wind farm proposal in Northern Ireland and applies Q-Methodology to identify the dominant discourse of support and objection. It is argued that this provides new insights into the nature of wind farm conflicts, points to a number or recommendatiosn for policy functions of an example of how this methodology can act as a potential bridge between positivist and post-positivist approaches to policy analysis.

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Section: Public Acceptance Of Wind Farms -The Limits To Existing Resementioning

confidence: 99%

Many ways to say ‘no’, different ways to say ‘yes’: Applying Q-Methodology to understand public acceptance of wind farm proposals

Ellis

Barry

Robinson

2007

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

377

255

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“…Cost comparisons for offshore and onshore wind projects (Douglas-Westwood Limited, 2002;Henderson et al, 2003;IRENA, 2012;Junginger et al, 2004;Kooijman et al, 2001) onshore having similar capacity factors (Roddy et al, 2009). For instance, reported ratios of LCOE for offshore to onshore wind-power projects were 1 .…”

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Offshore wind-turbine structures: a review

Arshad

O’Kelly

2013

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy

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This paper reviews various issues related to wind-power generation, one of the more popular forms of renewable energy, including attractions and challenges of electric power generation through onshore and offshore resources.Significant increases in wind-turbine dimensions, rated power-generation capacity and size of wind farm developments over the past two decades are projected to continue. Offshore wind-power generation presents many engineering challenges including: limited guidelines available for analysis and design of foundation/support structures; inadequate logistics for construction/fabrication; and comparatively expensive operation and maintenance costs, which combined result in current levelised cost of energy approximately double that for onshore wind-power generation. Different offshore foundation options are discussed in terms of general layout, loading characteristics and related fundamental natural frequency. Outlooks for some new approaches/developments and areas for further research are identified that may go towards reducing the levelised cost of energy for wind-power generation more in line with that from other energy resources, thereby enhancing the attractiveness of this industry for potential investors.

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“…Due to an increase in the amount of tax from 2.6 to 7.1 eurocents per kWh over the period 1999-2001, electricity companies were able to offer renewable electricity at the same or at even lower prices than those for electricity from fossil-fuel sources (Junginger and Agterbosch, 2003). Such favourable economic conditions for wind energy had never before been realised in the Netherlands, and they were comparable to economic conditions in Germany at that time.…”

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“…Economic and technical conditions were no longer prohibitive: as the market has grown around the world, production costs for a kilowatt hour of wind power dropped by some 20% over the period 1997(Greenpeace/ EWEA, 2001. While the production costs of wind electricity still are about 8 hct/kWh versus an electricity price of 2.7 hct/kWh (Sambeek et al, 2002), due to the tax exemptions of about 7 hct/kWh in 2000 and 2001 (Junginger and Agterbosch, 2003), wind electricity could compete well with electricity from fossil-fuel sources. However, now institutional conditions (the REB tax exemption for foreign green electricity, and the liberalisation of the green electricity market), followed in the wake by changes in social conditions (changing power relations on the wind power supply market), are hampering the implementation capacity of energy distributors with regard to initiatives taken by them.…”

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“…Although these studies mention and sometimes even stress the importance of other characteristics like government policy and the attitudes and behaviour of relevant policymakers, government authorities and private players, they are not incorporated into the models used to calculate future potentials and penetration rates. The effects of government policies are only taken into account insofar as they have an effect on quantifiable economic feasibility (Junginger and Agterbosch, 2003).…”

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Implementation of wind energy in the Netherlands: the importance of the social–institutional setting

2004

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This paper analyses the differences in performance of the different types of wind power entrepreneurs now active on the wind power supply market in the Netherlands. The development of the market is divided into three successive market periods: Monopoly powers (1989( -1995( ), Interbellum (1996( -1997 and Free market (1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002). For each of these periods, the interdependency between various systemic conditions-technical, economic, institutional and social conditions-is analysed, with the focus on the relative importance of the institutional and social settings for market development. This interdependency is analysed using the implementation capacity concept. Implementation capacity is defined as the total of those systemic conditions and mutual interdependencies that influence the behaviour of wind power entrepreneurs. It indicates the feasibility for wind power entrepreneurs to adopt wind turbines. From the analysis it was concluded that no overall implementation capacity exists, and implementation capacities differ for entrepreneurial groups with different entrepreneurial features. With respect to the relative importance of institutional and social conditions, it became clear, that it is mainly these conditions that differentiate between the various entrepreneurial groups. The dynamic configuration of institutional and social conditions facilitates some and hinders other types of wind power entrepreneurs, and as a result determines the development and composition of the market. Finally, the analysis explains the changing roles of entrepreneurial groups throughout the 1990s. r

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Renewable electricity in the Netherlands

Cited by 26 publications

References 12 publications

Many ways to say ‘no’, different ways to say ‘yes’: Applying Q-Methodology to understand public acceptance of wind farm proposals

Many ways to say ‘no’, different ways to say ‘yes’: Applying Q-Methodology to understand public acceptance of wind farm proposals

Offshore wind-turbine structures: a review

Implementation of wind energy in the Netherlands: the importance of the social–institutional setting

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