Supplement to: Human-Centered Energy Landscapes: Empirical Evidence on Design Factors Shaping Acceptance of Renewable Energy Systems

This is the cleaned data and questionnaire (both in German language) supporting the findings of the paper: Human-Centered Energy Landscapes: Empirical Evidence on Design Factors Shaping Acceptance of Renewable Energy Systems (currently under review). Our study intends to seek innovative ways of designing renewable energy systems in a way that is more appealing to communities living nearby. Therefore, we developed landscape-integrative concepts for both ground-mounted PV (GMPV) and wind turbines (WT). After an initial empirical evaluation using interviews and subsequent adaptions to the designs, we designed a questionnaire to quantify the extent to which these designs contribute to the community acceptance of potential residents. 

Specifically, the questionnaire was designed to answer the following questions: 

RQ1: To what extent do traditionally and innovatively designed GMPV and WT differ in terms of their perception and acceptance?

RQ2: To what extent is the acceptance of such systems influenced by evaluation criteria of integrative design (perceived aesthetics, landscape impact, costs)?

Please refer to the related journal article for the references of the questionnaire items. 

We removed speeders, slow responders, straight‑liners, and participants with contradictory response patterns, resulting in a total of n = 104 data sets for further analysis.