Deliverables
Installation of PV Modules.
The project has produced a range of outputs derived from each work package, targeted at specific audience and user groups. These include non-technical summary reports, refereed academic journal articles, professional reports to policy and industry and conference presentations. In addition, the research produced a novel, inter-disciplinary conceptual framework for understanding public engagement with RET that has been disseminated to key actors in industry, policy makers, advocacy groups and the public through a project website, practitioner participants, project partners and related networks. This is designed to aid the implementation of public engagement within evolving environmental impact, strategic assessment and sustainability appraisal processes.
Due to the degree of uncertainty surrounding renewable energy developments in terms of public acceptability, and the controversial nature of many local planning decisions, the research programme, with associated outputs, has been of interest to a wide range of institutions and organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, from renewable energy developers to energy agencies to local civic opposition groups and national lobby organisations such as the CPRE, Friends of the Earth, BWEA and Country Guardians.
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