Acceptance and support Clause Samples

Acceptance and support. After having measured respondents’ beliefs, affects, global attitude and preferences regarding residential fuel cells, we introduced a number of items to measure the general acceptance and support towards this installation. Regarding the acceptance of residential fuel cell micro-CHP installations, the figure below shows the distribution of the agreement with the statement “All else equal (price, comfort, maintenance cost, etc.), I would be happy to have an hydrogen fuel cell unit in my home in fu- ture”. If we take into account the whole sample, around 6 out of 10 would be very happy to have a residential FCH unit at home (2 out of 10 would be very happy), 3 out of 10 are undecided about this and less than 1 out of 10 would not be happy about it at all. Figure 21. Acceptance of residential hydrogen fuel cells (% of respondents in the total sample that would like to have a hydrogen fuel cell system in their home) Males tend to report a more positive attitude towards having a FCH home unit installed in the future relative to female respondents (68% of acceptance vs. 60%), as well as those in the age group 18-34 relative to those aged 55 or more (67% vs. 63%) and those living in bigger cities (more than one million inhabitants) relative to those living in cities with less than 20.000 inhabit- ants (72% vs. 63%). Willingness to install a residential FCH unit does not vary significantly by educational level or income (Table 12). There are significant differences among the studied countries. There is a higher level of ac- ceptance in Germany, Spain and Slovenia (71% in the three countries), and a lower level in France (55%), Norway (58%), Belgium (60%) and UK (60%). In these four countries, more than 30% of respondents are undecided about home FCHs and around 10% are not willing to have one installed in the future (Figure 22). 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% -20% Figure 22. Acceptance of residential hydrogen fuel cells (% of respondents in the seven countries that would like to have a hydrogen fuel cell system in their home) Respondents were also asked if public funding should be used to subsidize the purchase price of a fuel cell installation. This can be considered a measure of support to FCHs. As shown in figure 23, support to public funding to FCHs is generally high in the seven studied countries, and higher than personal acceptance. More than 7 out of 10 respondents agree with providing subsidies to home FCHs. 2 out of 10 are undecided and less than 1 out of 10 are...