Jakob Knauf

University of St.Gallen · Institute for Economy and the Environment

This report seeks to provide a reflection on the research completed within the network by combining the accumulated knowledge of the MISTRAL network on key social acceptance variables and key papers addressing them, providing a ‘travel guide’ to social acceptance research for those embarking on research on social dimensions of renewable energy and...

Citizen co-investment in wind energy projects has recently received a lot of attention among scholars and policymakers as a way to finance renewable energy projects and increase community acceptance of these projects. Citizen co-investment refers to the process by which members of the local community can financially participate in renewable energy...

The literature on social acceptance of wind energy has identified several important characteristics shaping the social acceptance of a planned project. These include distributional and procedural justice, as well as other project-related factors. Project characteristics do not exist in isolation and influence one another. Furthermore, social accept...

Local opposition to wind energy projects in Europe and North America is growing. This often causes project delays or even failure. Financial benefits may be one way to counteract a lack of community support. This analysis seeks to explain how discounted electricity, payments to the municipality, and payments for social purposes shift the acceptance...

Skaleneffekte bei Wärmeerzeugungs- und Speicher-Technologien

Szenario-Analyse für eine sektorgekoppelte kommunale Energieversorgung.

Anwendung der theoretisch-konzeptionellen Vorarbeiten zu statischen und dynamischen Skaleneffekte von Energietechnologien auf Block-Heiz-Kraftwerke (BHKW).

Anwendung der theoretisch-konzeptionellen Vorarbeiten zu statischen und dynamischen Skaleneffekten von Energietechnologien auf Block-Heiz-Kraftwerke (BHKW).

Empirische Kostendaten zur Illustration der statischen und dynamischen Skaleneffekte bei Photovoltaik- und Windkraftanlagen

The share of renewable energies in the heating sector has hardly increased in Germany in the last ten years. This paper uncovers why it is particularly difficult to transform this sector. Therefore, this work provides an in-depth analysis of path dependencies in the German heating sector. The research consists of two main parts. First, a literature...