How public acceptance affects power system development in Ireland and Germany ,

In this research, we utilise two datasets, from Ireland and Germany to quantify the level of opposition to wind power investment in each region in Ireland and Germany. [...] In this way, we determine the extent to which opposition to wind power investment increases total costs in each country, as well as the change in the final power generation investment portfolio. [...] DATA AND METHODS Our measurement of opposition to wind power investment was based on the responses to two surveys which were conducted amongst two representative samples of the population in Germany and in Ireland. [...] While the increase in total costs is relatively small, there is a large shift in the type of investment: from onshore wind in the north to solar power in the south in Germany, while Ireland instead shifts from onshore wind power to offshore. [...] We also compute a metric to approximate the cost of public opposition to energy investments, by dividing the increase in costs in each jurisdiction by the change in wind power investment in each jurisdiction.