Author(s):
Ribeiro, Fernando 
; Ferreira, Paula Varandas ; Araújo, Maria Madalena Teixeira de
Date: 2011
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/14787
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): Energy planning; Social aspects
Description
This paper overviews previous research addressing the inclusion of the, social dimension of sustainable
development on power systems planning. Consequences of the recent energy policies and strategies are already
being felt in, developed countries’ power systems, with the integration of rising quotas in renewable, energy
technologies. However, while the tools that aid decision making on power, planning show that economic and
environmental issues are easily quantifiable and thus, modeled, social concerns have been addressed in a less
extensive and more, subjective way, implying in most cases expert participation on multi-criteria decision aid,
techniques. A survey of recent papers providing public perceptions on electricity, generation technologies and
projects is presented. These papers were chosen and, reviewed in order to present a representative array of
methodologies that are used to, assess social acceptance of technologies. According to some of the reviewed
papers, this issue is suggested to be fundamental to increase project success. As a conclusion, stands the fact that
further discussion is still needed in order to achieve solid, agreement, among experts, over what are the positive
and the negative drivers to, social sustainability; otherwise models will not be able to translate reality and improve
it, under this point of view.
