D6.4 - Laying The Groundwork For Public Acceptance Of Enhanced Geothermal Systems
| Autor: | Duijn, Michael, Puts, Hanneke, Boxem, Thijs |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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| Popis: | The introduction of new technologies in the public domain is often difficult. The key dilemmas that become manifest are: 1. The unequal distribution of costs and benefits among stakeholders involved. 2. The disturbance of daily life: how will the new technology affect the daily life of people? 3. The uncertainty of the new and the lack of knowledge regarding impact on the (physical) living environment and on social ties between people. Based on a literature study about the development and implementation of Enhanced Geothermal Systems we argue that the handling of the key dilemmas defines the (extent of) public acceptance of a new technology. The ‘tragedy’ however is that many decision-making processes with regard to introducing the new (energy) technologies in the public domain are not designed to handle these dilemmas productively. In contrast to this, decision-making processes are often designed as if these dilemmas do not exist. In order to prevent that risks will be overlooked, societal costs ignored, uncertainties not included and the impact on people’s lives negated, we introduce a strategy for exploring the potential for public acceptance of Enhanced Geothermal Systems and from there to design an appropriate project strategy for the introduction and development of the intended EGS project. The proposed strategy includes both a technical-spatial assessment and a social-economic assessment. Based on the outcomes of the assessment the policy challenge will be defined (see figure 1). The type of policy challenge is an implication for the (decision making) strategy that is needed in this specific situation, for how the (decision making) process should look like and for who should be involved and when. This integrated assessment has been applied to two concrete case studies: 1) the Deep Heat Mining project in Basel (Switzerland) and 2) the EGS research project in Soultz-sous-Forêts (France). The report ends op with recommendations for future EGS projects. The main challenge regarding public acceptance for new EGS projects is to better connect the proposed assessment for creating public acceptance of EGS projects with current routines for developing and EGS-projects and the formal decision-making process for developing and implementing an EGS-project. The objective for a better connection between these three processes is to improve the possibility for developing and implementing future EGS-projects by creating ‘societal business cases’, taking into account the societal context of their specific locations. Furthermore, better connecting these processes would lead to more successful investments of operators and private companies in innovative energy technologies like EGS. FP7 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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