Public attitudes to wind energy

It's more popular than you
might have been told!
Many people believe
that wind farms are noisy and can disturb the lives of locals. On the
contrary,
people who live near a wind farm and have direct experience of it
generating
electricity tend to be more positive than those who do not.
Indeed, recent
studies has shown that the closer people live to a wind farm
the more supportive
they are of both the project and wind power as an energy
source.
In fact,
wind energy is one of the most popular of the energy
technologies. Certainly if
you were to ask people which form of power
generation they would like to see
more of, the answer is least likely to be
nuclear, oil, coal or gas. More than
eight out of ten people are in favor of
wind energy and less than one in ten
against it. However, this 5% often have
the most to say and certainly say it the
loudest, which often creates the
impression that wind farms are very unpopular.

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