ABSTRACT
B.C. FARHAR, L.M. HUNTER, T.M. KIRKLAND, AND K.J. TIERNEY
11.1 PERCEIVED ADVANTAGES
11.1.1 INTRODUCTION
Stakeholder informants were asked about their organizations’ view on the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy generally and of CSP in the San Luis Valley. The 396 pages of text were content-analyzed to discern discrete mentions of perceived advantages of renewable energy generally in the context of open-ended questioning; these are considered “responses.” Five broad categories of advantages were developed from the comments themselves: (1) economic, (2) environmental, (3) technological, (4) social-psychological, and (5) policy and regulatory. Under each
of these broad categories, subcategories were defined. Each response was coded by category and subcategory.
