IDENTIFICATION OF BEST PRACTICES AIMED AT FAVORING SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF SOLID BIOMASS PROJECTS AT COMMUNITY LEVEL

摘要

Social acceptance is a relevant obstacle to the development of biomass energy plants, leading to a costincrease up to 30% of the investment. According to the literature, three types of acceptance are identified: i) sociopolitical,ii) market, iii) community. In particular, this last type of acceptance is at the basis of local movementsopposing the realization of the investment, which is often referred with the so-called NIMBY syndrome. In thecurrent paper, we challenge the identification of the best practices to enhance the social acceptance at communitylevel, from a comparison of successful experiences related with solid biomass energy plants already operating in Italyand Spain. The investigation allowed us to identify five institutional measures, and six managerial measures, capableof favoring the social acceptance, and consequently to reducing the investment costs.