The impact of public acceptance on cost efficiency and environmental sustainability in decentralized energy systems

Funding Information: The authors would like to thank H.G. Schwarz-von Raumer as well as the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation for providing the scenicness data. Large parts of the methodology of this study were developed during the first author's three-and-a-half year PhD study period. The first author would therefore like to thank the three funding bodies during this period: the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the Kopernikus Project ENSURE “New ENergy grid StructURes for the German Energiewende” (funding reference: FKZ 03SFK1N0 ), the PhD College “Energy and Resource Efficiency” ( ENRES ) from the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, as well as the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) within the TrafoKommune project (funding reference: 03EN3008F ).