Community acceptance of large-scale solar energy installations in developing countries: Evidence from Morocco

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/32451 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/32451 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/32451 archive 353 disk0/00/01/19/36 2016-02-16 13:13:07 2021-08-27 17:25:54 2016-02-16 13:13:07 article show Hanger S. 1917 Komendantova N. 1880 0000-0003-2568-6179 Schinke B. Zejli D. Ihlal A. Patt A. 7617 Community acceptance of large-scale solar energy installations in developing countries: Evidence from Morocco pub prog_risk prog_rpv Climate change mitigation; Concentrated solar power; Community acceptance; Public acceptance; Middle East; North Africa Renewable energy production is climbing the public agenda in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region), for reasons of energy security, independence and local value creation. While technical and economic barriers are largely understood, in this paper we investigate the issue of community acceptance. In so doing, we explore the importance of relevant drivers of community acceptance such as level of expected socio-economic and environmental impacts, procedural and distributive justice, and trust. We conducted 232 face-to-face interviews with the local population in Ouarzazate in Morocco, the building site of a flagship project for concentrated solar power in the MENA region. We find that community acceptance is almost universal, particularly because solar power is perceived to be environmentally friendly. At the same time perceived level of knowledge about the project is very low, which is positively linked to the high level of acceptance. Our data suggest that there may be some social desirability bias distorting community acceptance; only long-term experience with the project will show whether hopes for job creation will be fulfilled and high levels of acceptance can be maintained. 2016 published Elsevier 10.1016/j.erss.2016.01.010 117 161 227 public Energy Research & Social Science 14 80-89 TRUE 2214-6296 FALSE no info:eu-repo/semantics/article