van Heuvelen, Rick, R.H.E. (2021) Creating a legitimate support base for solar-parks within local communties. Master thesis, Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SE).
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Abstract
Facing global climate change, one of the transitions the world has to make is the shift from a fossil-fuel based energy system to a sustainable energy system. The replacement of centralised electricity generation sources to renewable electricity sources requires adequate land. Accordingly, these decentralised, renewable electricity generation sources will be more locally and closer to the users. It is recognized that social acceptance is the constraining factor in achieving public support for building renewable energy projects. Therefore, through semi-structured interviews with representatives of several organizations that successfully initiated solar-parks with community acceptance, an answer to this thesis’ main research question has been formulated. It is found that a constructive collaboration with the local government, a clear (communication) framework and open negotiation processes are significant important factors in the creation of community acceptance. Furthermore, a constructive collaboration with the municipality indicates the need for socio-political acceptance first, before the creation of community acceptance can be accomplished. However, it is found that a clear framework is frequently missing and vagueness about definitions is lacking in practice. Therefore, future research should focus on the construction of unified frameworks and processes to create community acceptance.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Polen, J. van and Folmer, E.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Sep 2021 08:22 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2021 08:22 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/46 |
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