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Acceptance should not be assumed. How the dynamics of social acceptance changes over time, impacting onshore wind repowering (2022)
Journal Article
Windemer, R. (2023). Acceptance should not be assumed. How the dynamics of social acceptance changes over time, impacting onshore wind repowering. Energy Policy, 173, 113363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113363

Local community acceptance is a key influence on wind farm siting decisions. However, there is a temporal limitation to much social acceptance literature in that it does not consider how perceptions of the local community may change over the operatio... Read More about Acceptance should not be assumed. How the dynamics of social acceptance changes over time, impacting onshore wind repowering.

Repower to the people: The scope for repowering to increase the scale of community shareholding in commercial onshore wind assets in Great Britain (2022)
Journal Article
Philpott, A., & Windemer, R. (2022). Repower to the people: The scope for repowering to increase the scale of community shareholding in commercial onshore wind assets in Great Britain. Energy Research and Social Science, 92(October 2022), 102763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102763

Internationally, commercial onshore wind farms are starting to reach the end of their operational or consent life, posing a new and mounting challenge with potentially dramatic permutations for the sector. Replacing existing turbines with new infrast... Read More about Repower to the people: The scope for repowering to increase the scale of community shareholding in commercial onshore wind assets in Great Britain.