我们能在住宅太阳能应用中实现公平吗？美国公众对屋顶和社区太阳能的看法

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI:10.1016/j.erss.2025.104022

Naseem H. Dillman-Hasso, Nicole D. Sintov

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新兴研究已经研究了社区太阳能扩大可再生能源获取的潜力，但很少或没有工作调查公众对社区太阳能的看法。对美国国家样本（N = 1433）进行了调查，测试了对工具（采用太阳能的实际效用结果）、环境（采用太阳能的环境结果）、象征（采用太阳能的身份和社会地位信号）属性以及人口变量的看法如何影响采用社区和屋顶太阳能的意愿。线性回归模型发现，工具属性是采用这两种太阳能的意愿的最强大和最稳健的预测因子，而符号属性和环境属性的积极影响较小。尽管采用社区太阳能的障碍比采用屋顶太阳能少，但人们不太愿意采用前者，结果表明对社区太阳能的认知度较低。为了促进采用，我们建议提高认识并强调社区太阳能的工具属性。这可能最终增强社区太阳能的潜力，促进可再生能源的公平使用。

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Can we achieve equity in residential solar adoption? Public perceptions of rooftop and community solar in the United States

Emerging research has examined the potential for community solar to broaden access to renewables, but little to no work examines public perceptions of community solar. A United States national sample (N = 1433) was surveyed, testing how perceptions of instrumental (practical utility outcomes of solar adoption), environmental (environmental outcomes of solar adoption), and symbolic (identity and social status signals of solar adoption) attributes, as well as demographic variables, influence willingness to adopt both community and rooftop solar. Linear regression models find that instrumental attributes are the strongest and most robust predictor of willingness to adopt both types of solar, with smaller positive effects of symbolic and environmental attributes. Although there are fewer barriers to adopting community than rooftop solar, people are less willing to adopt the former, with results suggesting low awareness of community solar. To boost adoption, we recommend increasing awareness and emphasizing instrumental attributes of community solar. This may ultimately enhance the potential of community solar to promote equity in access to renewables.

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Energy Research & Social Science ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

14.00

自引率

16.40%

发文量

441

审稿时长

55 days

期刊介绍： Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers. Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.