What Do We Think about Social Acceptance of New Energy Technologies?

Recently, the second wave of research about CCUS is observed. After ten years of first trials with this technology, business and political forces come back to positive thinking about the broader usage of CCUS to mitigate CO₂ emission. This new focus on CCUS is connected with the large discussion about social acceptance of technologies connected with energy transition (especially RET). The aim of the chapter is to discuss the theoretical background of the social research concerning social acceptance of new energy technologies. Taking into account that the recent perception of any technology is entangled in the network of global relations and imaginations which construct worldwide risk society, we discuss here the different concepts of public and social acceptance, the content of social acceptance, spectrum of social attitudes toward CCUS and ways of communication of a new technology.