Participatory processes and local project leadership can decrease perceived trade-offs of renewable energy projects

Javier Feller Valero; Simon Montfort; Claudia R. Binder

doi:10.1371/journal.pclm.0000768

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Participatory processes and local project leadership can decrease perceived trade-offs of renewable energy projects

Javier Feller Valero,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Human-Environmental-Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Simon Montfort ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: simon.montfort@epfl.ch

Affiliation Laboratory for Human-Environmental-Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2072-7226

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Claudia R. Binder

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Human-Environmental-Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2921-9896

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Participatory processes and local project leadership can decrease perceived trade-offs of renewable energy projects

Javier Feller Valero,
Simon Montfort,
Claudia R. Binder

Published: December 10, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000768

About the Authors

Javier Feller Valero

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Human-Environmental-Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Simon Montfort

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: simon.montfort@epfl.ch

Affiliation Laboratory for Human-Environmental-Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2072-7226

Claudia R. Binder

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Human-Environmental-Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2921-9896

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

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