Factors Influencing the Public Acceptance of the Floating Offshore Wind Farm Development in Ulsan

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This thesis investigates the determinants of the public acceptance of the floating offshore wind farm development in Ulsan, highlighting the role of the community profit-sharing schemes. The Ulsan project is currently the largest floating offshore wind farm plan in the world and aims to install a total capacity of 9GW by 2030. As many cases at home and abroad demonstrated, public acceptance is a key success factor of large-scale renewable projects. Although there are many factors influencing public acceptance, profit-sharing schemes for local communities have recently drawn a significant attention from local residents and policy-makers alike. This thesis examines the individual effects of profit-sharing schemes and further their joint effects with other factors such as prior knowledge, trust, distributive and procedural justice, perceived risks and perceived costs, and perceived benefits. We collected data from a survey of 500 individuals who live in Ulsan and analyzed the data using OLS. The theoretical and policy implications of our empirical findings are discussed.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION 1
• Ⅱ. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESES 3
• 2.1. Global Offshore Wind Power 3
• 2.2. Offshore Wind Power in Korea 4
• 2.3. Korean Policy to Improve Residents’ Acceptance of Renewable Energy 5
• 2.4. Public Acceptance of Offshore Wind Power Projects 7
• 2.5. Hypothesis Development on Ulsan’s Offshore Wind Power 10
• Ⅲ. METHODS 16
• 3.1. Research Setting 16
• 3.2. Sample and Data Collection 16
• 3.3. Measurements 17
• 3.4. Analysis 20
• IV.RESULTS 24
• V. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 26
• 5.1. Theroetical and Practical Implications 26
• 5.2. Conclusion 28