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Social acceptance of renewable energy innovation: An introduction to the concept

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The special issue on Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Innovation as mentioned in this paper is a collection of best papers presented at an international research conference held in Tramelan (Switzerland) in February 2006.
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This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2007-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2195 citations till now.

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What are we doing here? Analyzing fifteen years of energy scholarship and proposing a social science research agenda

TL;DR: The article as discussed by the authors proposes a variety of methodological and topical areas, along with 75 research questions, that could deepen and broaden energy research, connected in part to all of the articles in this special (inaugural) issue of Energy Research & Social Science.
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Psychological factors influencing sustainable energy technology acceptance: A review-based comprehensive framework

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive framework of energy technology acceptance, based on a review of psychological theories and on empirical technology acceptance studies, is proposed to explain the intention to act in favor or against new sustainable energy technologies, which is assumed to be influenced by attitude, social norms, perceived behavioral control, and personal norm.
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A global sustainability perspective on 3D printing technologies

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a comprehensive assessment of 3D printing from a global sustainability perspective and quantified changes in life cycle costs, energy and CO 2 emissions globally by 2025.
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A blockchain-based smart grid: towards sustainable local energy markets

TL;DR: This work provides energy prosumers and consumers with a decentralized market platform for trading local energy generation without the need of a central intermediary and presents a preliminary economic evaluation of the market mechanism and a research agenda for the technological evaluation of blockchain technology as the local energy market’s main information and communication technology.
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Does community ownership affect public attitudes to wind energy? A case study from south-west Scotland

TL;DR: The results of a study of public attitudes to onshore windfarm development in south-west Scotland is presented in this article, where the authors explore the influences of different development models on attitudes to windfarms by comparing public attitudes towards a community-owned windfarm on the Isle of Gigha with attitudes towards several developer-owned on the adjacent Kintyre peninsula.
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Diffusion of Innovations

TL;DR: A history of diffusion research can be found in this paper, where the authors present a glossary of developments in the field of Diffusion research and discuss the consequences of these developments.
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Diffusion of Innovations

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Why Companies Go Green: A Model of Ecological Responsiveness

TL;DR: This article conducted a qualitative study of the motivations and contextual factors that induce corporate ecological responsiveness, which revealed three motivations: competitiveness, legitimation, and ecological responsibility, which were influenced by three contextual conditions: field cohesion, issue salience and individual concern.
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Perceived risk, trust, and democracy

Paul Slovic
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TL;DR: Risk management has become increasingly politicized and contentious, and polarized views, controversy, and overt conflict have become pervasive as discussed by the authors, which is a side effect of our remarkable form of participatory democracy, amplified by powerful technological and social changes that systematically destroy trust.
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Q1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Social acceptance of renewable energy innovation: an introduction to the concept" ?

This paper introduces the special issue on Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Innovation. This paper introduces three dimensions of social acceptance, namely socio-political, community and market acceptance. Factors influencing socio-political and community acceptance are increasingly recognized as being important for understanding the apparent contradictions between general public support for renewable energy innovation and the difficult realization of specific projects. The third dimension, market acceptance, has received less attention so far and provides opportunities for further research, particularly from management scholars. 

Therefore, further research could investigate the link between ownership and community acceptance, both in a more narrow sense of legal ownership, but also with regard to determinants of a ( more subjectively defined ) ‘ ‘ sense of ownership ’ ’. J Given the strong focus of some of the renewable energy policies on developing countries, more research on social acceptance and adoption of renewable energy innovation in the South, especially among the poorest of people, should be an obvious priority area for further research. Further work in this area could enhance their understanding of the current rethinking process in large energy companies towards taking a more or less proactive approach to renewables. 

Given the strong focus of some of the renewable energy policies on developing countries, more research on social acceptance and adoption of renewable energy innovation in the South, especially among the poorest of people, should be an obvious priority area for further research. 

Together with the crucial significance of local involvement in siting decisions for the relative success in implementation, the authors recommend facilitating local ownership and institutionalising participation in project planning to help arrive at a better recognition and involvement of the multiple interests (environmental, economic and landscape) that are relevant at the local level of implementation. 

Community acceptance refers to the specific acceptance of siting decisions and renewable energy projects by local stakeholders, particularly residents and local authorities. 

In particular, when investors and facility owners are community outsiders, trust in their aims, attitude and competence becomes an issue. 

As Wolsink (2007) in this issue demonstrates, the typical pattern of local acceptance before, during, and after a project follows a U-curve, going from high acceptance to (relatively) low acceptance during the siting phase (usually still positive on average) and back up to a higher level of acceptance once a project is up and running. 

If a local government, a project developer, and a power company try to implement a residential solar power system by siting photovoltaic modules on rooftops in a new housing district, many crucial questions emerge that affect the acceptance of several actors. 

there is a link with socio-political acceptance, because these firms are influential stakeholders in the development of energy policies and they can use their influence in the crucial political decisions about the design of financial procurement systems and the access to the grid for other investors in renewable energy systems. 

Trust in each of the three actors appeared to depend on perceived competence and intentions, which in turn were found to be related to perceived similarity of goals and thinking between trustee and trustor.