Social benefit is the total benefit to a community from producing or consuming a good or service, and that includes wind farming.
The WinWind project identified more than 20 types of local social interventions, such as, new job creation; modernisation of municipal roads; installation of power lines; economic incentives for family with at least four children aged up to 25 years; “Baby Bonus” for new-borns; reimbursement of travel fees for students of secondary schools; educational services (cultural events) for all age groups. In some cases also contributions to local non-profit associations/foundations supporting social welfare projects were provided.
Among these, the WinWind project found that increased activity for local businesses and local employment, are very strong drivers for social acceptance.
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The WinWind project collected cases wind parks providing social benefit to the local community. Here below further readings:
An overview of the benefits deriving from wind farms
Screening of Technical and Non-Technical regulations, guidelines and recommendations pages 45-51
A comparison of benefit sharing mechanisms in the WinWind case studies:
Synthesis and Comparative Analysis of Best Practice Case Studies for Promoting the Social Acceptance pages 53-56