Research

Reassessing Renewable Energy Subsides: Issue Brief

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in, and support for, renewable energy technologies as a means to address climate change and other environmental concerns while at the same time diversifying the U.S. electricity supply mix, promoting advanced technologies, and supporting local economic activity and job creation.

Early evolution of the largest-sized droplets in maritime cumulus clouds

Droplet size distributions (DSDs) measured within a distance of approximately 1 km above the base of shallow maritime cumulus clouds during the Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field campaign are compared with results of a condensation and stochastic coalescence model, run in the framework of a closed parcel.

Identifying predictors of attitudes towards local onshore wind development with reference to an English Case Study (Jones 2009)

  • Paper identifies “what factors might predict attitudes towards wind development in England”.

Wind Energy planning in England, Wales and Denmark: Factors influencing Project Success (McLaren 2007)

  • Paper investigates the role of public participation in the planning process of onshore wind farms in Europe.
  • Paper concludes that projects with high levels of participatory planning are more likely to be publicly accepted and successful.  

Factors that weighted into the study included:

“Beyond NIMBYism: towards an Integrated Framework for Understanding Public Perceptions of Wind Energy” (Devine-Wright 2005)

  • Provides a literature review of past reseach papers
  • Paper has specific section entitled “Does Community Involvement Increase Local Support for Wind Farms?”.  

Section brings out several findings of past papers, and includes many references: