2020/09/29 by Anders Dugstad, Kristine Grimsrud, Gorm Kipperberg +2 · 2 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Economic and Environmental Valuation #Environmental Education and Sustainability #Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
paper · doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111780
openalex publication_date 2020/09/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Despite a large stated-preference (SP) literature on wind power externalities, few SP studies employ a case-control approach to examine whether people's acceptance of new wind power developments and renewable energy initiatives increases or decreases with exposure. Furthermore, the existing studies are inconclusive on this issue. In a case-control discrete choice experiment, we measure the level of acceptance in terms of people's willingness-to-accept (WTA) for having future land-based wind power developments in Norway; comparing exposed and non-exposed people's WTA. We find that exposure lowers acceptance. Furthermore, exposed people are also unwilling to pay as much to increase general domestic renewable energy production (from all sources) as non-exposed people, and thus have lower acceptance for such renewable energy policy initiatives. After testing for type of exposure, we argue that the inconclusiveness in the literature of how exposure affects acceptance of wind power developments could be due to the fact that impacts considered differ somewhat across studies.