We explore the relationship between political ideology and public attitudes towards a range of energy technologies (namely: biomass, coal, shale (or coal seam) gas, natural gas, carbon capture and storage, hydroelectricity, nuclear, solar thermal and photovoltaic, wave and wind energy). Our empirical analysis draws on the results of two similar nationally representative public surveys that were conducted in Australia and the UK in 2017. Our findings suggest that political ideology is significantly associated with public attitudes towards energy technologies. Specifically, supporters of left-leaning political parties tend to be more supportive of renewables and opposed to biomass, shale (coal seam) gas, nuclear and fossil fuel energies compared to right-leaning individuals. We also create an alternative ideological proxy to capture the relative emphasis that parties place on the environment and economy and find that supporters of environmentally focused parties generally express similar energy preferences to left-leaning individuals and economy-focused respondents align with right-leaning attitudes. Our findings are robust to different choices of proxy.

我们探讨了政治意识形态与公众对一系列能源技术（即：生物质、煤炭、页岩（或煤层）气、天然气、碳捕获和储存、水电、核能、太阳能热和光伏、波浪能和风能）。我们的实证分析借鉴了 2017 年在澳大利亚和英国进行的两项具有全国代表性的类似公众调查的结果。我们的研究结果表明，政治意识形态与公众对能源技术的态度显着相关。具体而言，与右倾个人相比，左倾政党的支持者往往更支持可再生能源，反对生物质、页岩（煤层）气、核能和化石燃料能源。我们还创建了一个替代的意识形态代理来捕捉政党对环境和经济的相对重视，并发现关注环境的政党的支持者通常表达与左倾个人相似的能源偏好，而关注经济的受访者则与右倾态度保持一致。我们的发现对于不同的代理选择是稳健的。