Creative Commons

This dissertation was written as a part of the MSc in ICT Systems at the International Hellenic University. A research towards social acceptance of biomass projects was conducted. To complete this research, the formation of a questionnaire was essential. Several questions concerning alternative sources of energy and more specifically biomass were selected in order to understand and estimate knowledge and understanding of the respondents in terms of "green sources" of energy and of course biomass. A sample of 205 respondents was selected with different gender, age, educational level, employment status and region of residence were selected to estimate and visualize their perspective towards biomass in terms of social acceptance. After careful deliberation with my supervisor, we concluded that the most suitable method to conduct our research was a web-based questionnaire due to the reason that apart from social acceptance we wanted to examine future potentials regarding biomass projects. Indicatively from the sample of respondents who were aware of the term biomass, we derive their willingness to accept electricity production from biomass projects, from their responses to questions such as "visual negative effect on the landscape from biomass power plant", "drawback for your selection of area of residence, the existence of such a powerplant", "support the construction of a biomass powerplant on your region". Finally I would like to thank my supervisor Mr. S.Kiartzis, for his guidance to complete my dissertation and Mr. Th. Dergiades, for his valuable contribution and support during my studies.