The wide adoption of renewables will require public consent and, arguably, new, more open, approaches to planning control. A new study by Richard Cowell from Cardiff University and Patrick Divine-Wright from Exeter University looks at how we have been doing so far and asks ‘how have decision-making procedures and support measures for energy infrastructure in the UK changed in the period 2008–2017? How have the changes been justified and how have the publics to be engaged been represented? How has the state struck balances between openness and closure around what can be subject to debate, and what does this say about how public engagement intersects with energy transitions?’
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