Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsbefragung im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts ENERGOOD – Berücksichtigung des gesellschaftlichen Wohls bei der Transformation des Energiesystems

Within the research project ENERGOOD, and on behalf of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (gGmbH), forsa (Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung und statistische Analysen mbH) conducted a representative survey among the population aged 18 and older in Germany. 

ENERGOOD aims to use a set of societal well-being indicators for multicriterial optimisation of a 100% renewable energy system, using optimisation and simulation models. This survey has two main objectives: 1) to gather information on the impact of a set of RES technology options on indicators that have not previously been quantified: trust in energy transition technologies, perceived visual impact on the landscape, perceived environmental impact and perceived contribution to the energy transition; 2) to gather information on the importance rating on the set of well-being indicators, as a basis for generating weights to be used in multi-criterial assessments.

To these ends, the survey also examines public attitudes toward the energy transition. A total of 1,019 citizens aged 18 and older, selected through a systematic random sampling procedure, were interviewed for this study. The data collection was carried out from September 25 to October 5, 2025, using the representative online panel forsa.omninet.

The key findings of the study are presented in the available results report. The results can be extrapolated to the general population within the margins of error inherent to all sample surveys (in this case, +/- 3 percentage points). The publication set encompasses the dataset in SPSS format (.sav), the codebook and survey report (German).