Public Acceptance of Renewable Energies: Different Factors of Opposition Against Different Technologies?

The sudden and exponential increase of projects for the production of energy from renewable sources has drastically increased in the last decade, by also triggering a widespread citizens' disapproval towards such initiatives worldwide. Consequently, research on public acceptance of renewable energy initiatives has become an important and well-established topic in energy research, too. Social research mostly investigated the phenomenon via case-based approach. Our research departs it and adopts a bibliometric perspective on existing contributions to draw general insights on public acceptance for diverse renewable energy technologies. Results show a significant difference in the motivations of public opposition towards the implementation and realisation of technological infrastructures and processes for the exploitation of different renewable energy.