This paper analyses how people's attitudes towards onshore wind power and overhead transmission lines affect the costoptimal development of electricity generation mixes, under a high renewable energy policy. For that purpose, we use a power systems generation and transmission expansion planning...

This paper analyses how people's attitudes towards onshore wind power and overhead transmission lines affect the costoptimal development of electricity generation mixes, under a high renewable energy policy. For that purpose, we use a power systems generation and transmission expansion planning...

Am 10. Juni 2011 beschloss der Kreistag des im Norden von Rheinland-Pfalz gelegenen Landkreises Ahrweiler, die Stromnachfrage im Kreis bis zum Jahr 2030 bilanziell zu 100 % durch erneuerbare Energien zu decken. Der Anteil der "Erneuerbaren" am kreisweiten Gesamtstromverbrauch hat sich seither...

Community-driven development is an approach to development that emphasizes community control over planning decisions and investment resources. Over the past decade, it has become a key operational strategy for many national governments, as well as for international aid agencies, with the World...