Public Acceptance of Renewable Energy Sources: a Case Study from the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/7/1742/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/7/1742/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13071742" target="_blank" >10.3390/en13071742</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Public Acceptance of Renewable Energy Sources: a Case Study from the Czech Republic

Original language description

The substitution of traditional energy production with renewable energy sources (RES) in the European Union (EU) represents a multidimensional issue with its pros and cons viewed differently by governments, technology companies, markets, as well as the general public. There are significant public doubts in expediency of investments in renewables in place. Our paper studies the factors related to the public opinion on renewables using a reasonable and representative sample of respondents (1026 people) from one of the EU Member States, the Czech Republic, via a set of ordinal regression analyses with spline correction for ordinal predictors. Our results suggest that the population of the Czech Republic is split in half in its trust in renewables as a substitute to traditional energy sources. In addition, our results show that the opinions on renewables in the Czech Republic are significantly related to personal concerns on environmental protection and worries about use of nuclear energy. Moreover, we f

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Energies

ISSN

1996-1073

e-ISSN

1996-1073

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

000537688400211

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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