The rapidly developing literature on distributed generation of energy - preferably from renewable sources, but also with conventional sources like shale gas, seems to suffer from a narrow focus on technology. However, one might argue that the slow adoption rates of new energy technologies are also largely determined by broad social acceptance issues.
This interdisciplinary workshop raises the issue of social acceptance of energy technologies – a core issue also in the research on transitions of the energy system1. By focusing on two distinct examples (shale gas on the one hand and micro-renewables on the other) the workshop brings forth the core issues of the current debate, discusses the potential of different methodological approaches to provide policy-relevant results, and aims at cross-fertilization of methods.
Contributions are from the areas of technology assessment, governance research as well as from scenario analysis using agent-based models, and are strongly directed towards conclusions for policy with regard to supporting, triggering and guiding transition processes.
Date: Fri 5 Dec 2015, 10-13h
Venue: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Innovation Systems Department
TechGate Tower, 7th floor
Donau-City-Straße 1
1220 Vienna, Austria