Objectives and scope
The objective of this project is to develop a tool that can measure and promote social acceptance of technologies for Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Rational Use of Energy (RUE) by means of:
- Assessing the previously developed Socrobust tool for suitability by mapping its potential and limitations to contribute to social acceptance of RES and RUE technologies.
- Determining the key elements of social acceptance of RES and RUE technologies by assessing the (recent and past) social acceptance of technologies such as hydrogen, biomass, CO2 capture and sequestration (CSS), solar thermodynamics, and wind in several European regions.
- Enhancement of the Socrobust tool platform into a multi-stakeholder tool by integrating knowledge gained in objectives (i.), and (ii.), and by designing the necessary instruments and procedures.
- Validation and deployment of the multi-stakeholder tool in five selected demonstration projects, covering a wide range of RES and RUE technologies as well as various regions in Europe. The preliminarily selected demonstration projects are a hydrogen project in the Nordic countries, a biomass project in the East-European region, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) in the West-European region, a wind project in Hungary and a solar thermodynamics project in the Mediterranean region.
- Dissemination of the multi-stakeholder tool to key stakeholders involved in implementation of new RES and RUE technologies.