期刊
ENERGY POLICY
卷 151, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112149
关键词
Carbon capture and storage; Public support; Conjoint experiment; Energy policy; Climate change policy; Decarbonization
资金
- European Research Council [336703]
- SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement & Leadership) research award
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Forderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [P1SGP1_174939]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [P1SGP1_174939] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- European Research Council (ERC) [336703] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Despite the potential importance of CCS technologies in climate change mitigation, commercial projects remain rare. Public awareness of CCS in the US is low, with policies outlawing new coal- and gas-fired power plants without CCS garnering higher support. Public backing decreases with rising costs and decreasing distance requirements of CCS plants from residential areas.
Although Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies can potentially play an important role in climate change mitigation efforts, commercial CCS projects are still rare. Knowledge about the technical challenges of these technologies is rapidly advancing, but the challenges related to their public acceptance are still under-investigated. Here we try to close this research gap by investigating public perceptions of CCS and public attitudes towards policies to scale up these technologies in the United States, where most existing industrial-scale CCS projects are operating. Based on a demographically representative sample of US residents, we find that awareness of CCS is very low. Using a conjoint experiment, we show that policies that outlaw the construction of new coal- and gas-fired power plants without CCS find higher public support than CCS subsidies and increases in taxes on unabated fossil fuel power generation. Public support decreases with rising costs of CCS deployment and decreasing minimal distance requirements of CCS plants from residential areas. Our results provide insights into the political feasibility of a large-scale deployment of CCS and show that specific policy design choices play an important role in influencing public support for policies to scale up these technologies.
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