How the public imagines the energy future: Exploring and clustering non-experts' techno-economic expectations towards the future energy system.

ABSTRACT: Various countries have pledged to carry out system-wide energy transitions to address climate change. This requires taking strategic decisions with long-term consequences under conditions of considerable uncertainty. For this reason, many actors in the energy sector develop model-based scenarios to guide debates and decision-making about plausible future energy systems. Besides being a decision support instrument for policy-makers, energy scenarios are widely recognized as a way of shaping the expectations of experts and of influencing energy policy more generally. However, relatively little is known about how energy scenarios shape preferences and expectations of the public. We use an explorative research design to assess the publics' expectations of future energy systems through an onlin

SUBMITTER: Braunreiter L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7058329 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature