Government versus the people – The mismatch in value use to assess solar farms in the Netherlands

In energy projects, especially in controversial ones, two trajectories of assessment can be distinguished: a formal trajectory, embedded in the legal system, and an informal trajectory, residing in the public discourse. Often, there is a fundamental mismatch between these two trajectories. The informal trajectory arises because local residents perceive certain shortcomings in values used to assess the project in the formal trajectory. In this paper, we investigate the role values play in the assessments of eight utility-scale solar farms in two municipalities in the Netherlands. Based on polic... Mehr ...