ABSTRACT

The transition to a renewable energy future requires the extensive expansion of current high voltage grids. Due to the amount of land needed for expansion, issues related to land use have led to increased grid development opposition among landowners which in turn leads to significant project planning and budget overruns. Yet knowledge about why landowners support or object to high voltage grid development is limited. In this study, we use a theory on pluralism to uncover and categorize the multiplicity of motivations of 200 individual landowners in the Netherlands. Our results indicate that only a small number of landowners who oppose grid development focus on individual monetary gain through compensation for limits on their land use. Furthermore, most landowners find the fair and equal distribution of both the advantages and disadvantages of such limits more important than individual financial compensation. As such, overcoming contentious land use issues related to high voltage grid development by way of high individual financial compensation isn’t the only solution.

• Highlights

• Land use conflicts affect expansions of high voltage grids crucial for meeting CO2 objectives

• Motivations of landowners are unevenly divided among different rationalities

• Most individual landowners do support high voltage grid developments

• Individual financial compensation isn’t the only solution

摘要

向可再生能源未来的过渡需要广泛扩展当前的高压电网。由于扩建需要大量土地，与土地使用相关的问题导致土地所有者对电网开发的反对增加，进而导致项目规划和预算严重超支。然而，关于土地所有者为何支持或反对高压电网开发的知识却很有限。在这项研究中，我们使用多元主义理论来揭示和分类荷兰 200 名个体土地所有者的多重动机。我们的结果表明，只有少数反对电网开发的土地所有者通过补偿土地使用限制来关注个人货币收益。此外，大多数土地所有者认为公平和平等地分配这种限制的利弊比个人经济补偿更重要。因此，通过高额个人经济补偿来解决与高压电网开发相关的有争议的土地使用问题并不是唯一的解决方案。

• 强调

• 土地使用冲突影响高压电网的扩建，这对于实现二氧化碳减排目标至关重要

• 地主的动机在不同的理性之间分配不均

• 大多数个人土地所有者确实支持高压电网的发展

• 个人经济补偿不是唯一的解决方案