국내 신재생에너지 발전사업 유형에 따른 일반국민 및 지역주민 수용성 추정 연구

Abstract

Korean government is accelerating the expansion of renewable energy, including the announcement of the 「Plan for the renewable energy 3020」 in 2017. There are many factors that prevent the domestic renewable energy projects, and the resistance of local residents is one of such factors. In spite of this situation, there are not many studies on local acceptance of domestic renewable energy projects. Under this background, general public and local acceptance of renewable energy projects by type of renewable energy and projects were estimated using the contingent valuation method (CVM) in this study. There are many kinds of renewable energy, but in this study renewable energy are set as solar photovoltaic, wind power and biomass. Renewable energy projects types are set as 'general type' which deducts electric charges when participating in the project and 'community-based type' which guarantees annual rate of return. As a result, the average willingness to accept (WTA) of local was higher than that of the general public regardless of the type of renewable energy and projects. That is, local acceptance is lower than general public acceptance. The average WTA by type of energy appeared high in order of biomass, wind power, and solar photovoltaic. Also, in order to figure out the change of average WTA according to the type of projects, the maximum investment intent of respondents to community-based renewable energy projects was used to convert the average WTA(unit of %) into unit of money. As a result of comparison, the average WTA increased in the community-based type projects compared to the general type projects in the case of general public and in the case of the local, it decreased inversely. This study is meaningful in that the acceptance of general public and local for the renewable energy projects is derived and compared quantitatively considering type of energy and projects. In addition, the analysis shows that the acceptance of local, which is relatively low, should be fully discussed in the future policy formulation.