scholarly journals Can Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Achieve Justice in Transitioning to 100% Renewable Electricity? Survey of Public Perceptions in Sociotechnical Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
Adewale A. Adesanya
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Renewable Electricity ◽  
Upper Peninsula ◽  
Cost Of Energy ◽  
Wind Energy Development ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Very High

The cost of energy in the Western Upper Peninsula (WUP), a rural and northern part of the state of Michigan, is among the highest in the United States. This situation has resulted in hardship for WUP residents due to exorbitant electricity bills. While interest in renewable electricity (RE) has increased in the region, the unanswered questions are what factors would make WUP residents more or less supportive of a transition to 100% RE, and how does the support for a 100% RE transition differ between counties in the WUP? This research analyzed factors that would make residents more or less supportive of a 100% RE transition in the WUP. This research investigated public perceptions through a quantitative residents’ survey (N = 347). Using logistic regression, the results show that residents’ likelihood to participate in a municipality-led initiative that will reduce their consumption by 5% is statistically significant to their probability of support for wind energy development at p < 0.05. Furthermore, the likelihood of 100% RE transition support is very high across WUP counties, with a similar trend for project preferences. The results in this research can provide a roadmap for future community-engaged planning on 100% RE in various counties in the region.

scholarly journals Energy Squad

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (05) ◽  
pp. 36-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Winters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
High Standard ◽  
The United States ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cost Of Energy ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Small Manufacturers

This article focuses on the fact that even as energy and commodity cost increases, working efficiently has been made a bigger priority than ever for small manufacturers, wherein the power consumption is being scaled back. The share of the United States’ energy supply going to industry has dropped steadily over the past few decades. Returns on energy-saving investments are pretty good, but proposals for making those sorts of investments are often held to an incredibly high standard. The recommendations that are most often adopted, such as reducing the temperature of water used in a process or repairing leaks in lines and valves, pay back the initial investment in a couple of months. While energy costs can be cut significantly—even easily—it is an expense that many managers find easy to overlook. For most manufacturers, the cost of energy accounts for just a small percentage of their overall expenses.

Estimating bat fatality at a Texas wind energy facility: implications transcending the United States–Mexico border

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara P Weaver ◽  
Amanda K Jones ◽  
Cris D Hein ◽  
Ivan Castro-Arellano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
Energy Facility ◽  
United States Mexico Border ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Wind Energy Development ◽  
United States Mexico

Abstract Wind energy development causes bat fatalities. Despite emphasis on understanding and reducing these impacts, few data are available for the southwest region of the United States and northern Mexico. We monitored bat fatalities for a full year (March 2017–March 2018) at a wind energy facility in south Texas near the United States–Mexico border. We established search plots of 100-m radius at eight randomly selected turbines (of 255) and searched the roads and pads at an additional 92 turbines. We conducted weekly searches from spring through fall and bimonthly during winter. We used GenEst (Generalized Mortality Estimator) to estimate bat fatalities corrected for searcher efficiency, carcass removal, and density-weighted proportion of area searched. We found 205 bats during standardized searches, the majority of which were Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis, 76%). The corrected fatality estimates were 16 bats/megawatt/year (95% confidence interval [CI]: 12 – 30 bats/megawatt/year) across all species. Species composition at our site is similar to that of northern Mexico, an area of expanding wind energy development with no published studies.

scholarly journals Burdened by renewable energy? A multi-scalar analysis of distributional justice and wind energy in the United States

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Mueller ◽  
Matthew M Brooks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
Energy Infrastructure ◽  
Wind Energy Development

The transition towards renewable energy is likely to be uneven across social and spatial dimensions. To ensure this transition is equitable and just, energy injustice has become the key framework for analyzing and interpreting the distribution of energy infrastructure. Wind energy development has experienced a significant gap between broad public support for increased development but persistent localized opposition to proposed projects, indicating that wind represents a locally unwanted land use. We argue that although the negative impacts of wind energy infrastructure are less extreme than those posed by other, more toxic, unwanted land uses, their status as a locally unwanted land use will produce similar distributional injustices as have been found throughout the environmental injustice literature. Using data from both the American Community Survey and the U.S. Wind Turbine Database, we use logistic and Poisson regressions, fixed effects, and temporal lags to evaluate the current landscape of wind energy injustice along the social dimensions of income, race and ethnicity, age, education, labor force participation, and rurality at three spatial scales: between all counties within the contiguous United States, between counties within states with wind energy, and between census tracts within counties with wind energy. We find results vary by scale and whether the model is comparing the presence of any development or the size of that development. The most evidence of injustice is visible at the within-county level related to whether or not there is any wind energy development, with few relationships present when evaluating the absolute size of development.

scholarly journals Analyse des effets de l’assurance et de la relation de confiance consommateur-producteur sur les possibilités d’abus des chirurgiens

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges Dionne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Excess Capacity ◽  
Full Information ◽  
Real Cost ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Very High ◽  
Full Insurance

Abstract The object of this paper is to analyse the effects of insurance and of the relation of trust between consumer and producer on the possibilities of fraud by the producer. Fraud is defined as the provision of unnecessary services to a consumer who does not possess full information about the quality of his purchase. The possibilities of fraud increase with insurance. In particular, they are very high with full insurance since real cost of search tends to infinite. Also we verify that good trust between consumer and producer limits search activities. We apply this model to the market of surgeons in the United States. This market reflects the main characteristics of the model: the consumer is not well informed, the relation of trust is important, the cost of search is high, the service is largely insured and there is excess capacity.

The Economic Impact of a Foodborne Disease Outbreak Due to Staphylococcus aureus

1988 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 898-900 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. SUDHAKAR ◽  
R. NAGESWARA RAO ◽  
RAMESH V. BHAT ◽  
C. P. GUPTA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Staphylococcus Aureus ◽  
Productivity Loss ◽  
Economic Cost ◽  
The United States ◽  
Disease Outbreak ◽  
Foodborne Disease ◽  
Laboratory Investigations ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Very High

The economic cost of a Staphylococcus aureus outbreak involving over 100 persons was estimated. About 41% of the expenditure was borne by the affected persons which includes, loss of wages or productivity loss and other expenses. The cost of hospitalization, laboratory investigations, etc., was 43%. Educative and preventive measures would considerably reduce the economic cost of the outbreaks which are very high for a developing economy. A comparison of the economic cost calculated on the basis of percent of per capita income with that of a similar outbreak in the United States indicated that the cost of a foodborne disease outbreak is higher in India than in the United States.

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