Citizens and the Social Sustainability of Energy Infrastructure Siting (SEI)

能源基础设施建设的延误会提高能源成本，降低电力可靠性，并造成供应中断。需要对能源基础设施的社会可持续性进行系统的经验理解。该项目利用各种数据和广泛的计算机模拟，开发和测试了关于电力、石油和天然气基础设施选址的新理论。能源基础设施选址的公民和社会可持续性项目将提供理论、经验和工具，通过缩短能源设施许可时间来改善社会福利。该项目的更广泛影响包括一种方法，使社区更早地参与选址过程，帮助项目支持者确定对受影响社区的关键让步，以提高接受度，并降低法律和政治成本。这项研究将作为克莱蒙特学院新的社会能源可持续性课程的核心材料。其他项目外展包括SEI项目网站的开发，该网站将托管一个文档存储库以及所有能源项目的交互式地图，以便向选址从业人员和利益相关者传播。该项目的目的是了解和预测复杂的公民反对能源基础设施项目。比较案例研究设计考察了公民对各种能源技术的风险认知和相关的地方保护行动，将公众接受度调查与有关能源技术类型和公民邻近地区的具体案例数据相结合。样品框架包括美国西部天然气和石油管道、高压输电线、天然气发电和风力发电项目。将选出7至9个历史选址案例，并向公众提供公民和利益相关者的联系信息。参与者将被要求完成关于风险态度的在线调查，以及行为、人口统计和空间数据。将使用基础设施选址（现场）©软件。该软件集成了基于代理的利益相关者动态模型和地理信息系统模型，该模型基于人口统计、工程和空间数据构建代理交互。in - site模型模拟了以社区为基础的反对组织的出现，这些组织在延迟或阻止能源设施项目方面非常有效。空间统计学和计量经济学将补充基于主体的建模，并允许对能源部门和选址问题的潜在驱动因素进行比较分析。

Delays in the construction of energy infrastructure can raise energy costs, reduce electricity reliability, and cause supply disruptions. A systematic empirical understanding of the social sustainability of energy infrastructure is needed. This project develops and tests new theories about siting of electricity, oil, and gas infrastructure using a variety of data and extensive computer simulations. The Citizens and the Social Sustainability of Energy Infrastructure Siting project will provide theories, empirics, and tools to improve social welfare by shortening energy facility permitting times. The broader impacts of the project include a methodology to engage communities earlier in the siting process, help project proponents identify key concessions to impacted communities to increase acceptance, as well as reduce legal and political costs. The research will serve as the core material for a new Social Sustainability of Energy course for the Claremont Colleges. Other project outreach includes the development of the SEI project website that will host a document repository as well as interactive maps of all the energy projects for dissemination to siting practitioners and stakeholders.The project objective is to understand and predict complex citizen opposition to energy infrastructure projects. The comparative case-study design examines citizens' perceptions of risks and associated place-protective actions across energy technologies, integrating public acceptance surveys with case-specific data about the type of energy technology and citizen proximities. The sample frame comprises natural gas and oil pipelines, high voltage power lines, natural gas electricity generation, and wind generation projects in the western US. Seven to nine historical siting cases will be selected for which publicly-available citizen and stakeholder contact information is available. Participants will be asked to complete online surveys about risk attitudes along with behavioral, demographic, and spatial data. Infrastructure Siting (In-Site)© software will be used. This software integrates an agent-based model of stakeholder dynamics with a Geographical Information System model that structures the agents- interactions based on demographic, engineering, and spatial data. The In-Site model simulates the emergence of community-based oppositional organizations, which have been surprisingly effective in delaying or blocking energy facilities projects. Spatial statistics and econometrics will complement the agent-based modeling and allow a comparative analysis of the underlying drivers of opposition across energy sectors and siting issues.