Identification of Perceived Challenges in the Green Energy Transition by Turkish Society through Sentiment Analysis
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- Measuring the reactions and acceptance level of Turkish society regarding the transition to green energy by analyzing YouTube comments containing individual remarks that are produced from news articles featured in international, national, and local media videos and individual videos (shorts).
- Developing a tool to measure the evolving perceptions of society over time for each transition to a green energy source. Identifying the reasons behind changing perceptions and developing policy recommendations accordingly.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Natural Language Processing
2.2. The Use and Impact of Social Media
2.3. Green Energy and Public Opinion
2.4. Deep Learning and Transformers
3. Methodology
4. Results
4.1. Data Description
4.2. Experimental Results
5. Discussion
- Nuclear energy is the most important energy source on the agenda of Turkish society, followed by hydroelectric energy and solar energy.
- Political will and incentive policies play a significant role in society’s orientation toward energy policies.
- Although there is no clear public opinion on the safety, waste management, and environmental effects of nuclear energy, the need for energy influences the public’s acceptance of nuclear energy.
- Large-scale projects involving nuclear reactors, dams, solar panels, and wind turbines, supported by the government, are effective in promoting the public adoption of these energy types.
- Negative perceptions of nuclear energy include radiation hazards, environmental pollution, waste management, high investment, and operating costs; negative perceptions of hydroelectric energy include the cost of large dam projects, water management, and environmental impact; negative perceptions of solar energy include environmental and land use and technological risks; negative perceptions of wind energy include noise pollution and impacts on birds and wildlife; negative perceptions of geothermal energy include decreasing underground water levels and damage to agricultural areas; and negative perceptions of bioenergy include waste management and its impact on agricultural areas.
- Continuous, high-capacity energy production and efficiency are effective for nuclear energy, especially large dam projects; and high-capacity energy production for hydroelectric energy, the ability to install solar panels both publicly and individually; low operating costs for solar energy; low cost and low environmental impact for wind energy; long-term low operating and maintenance costs for geothermal energy, and the use of local resources for bioenergy.
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Roc Auc Score of Categories | |||||||
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Count of Word Diversity | Count of Max Word | Count of Min Word | Out of Content | Risk | Environment | Cost | Perspective |
20,000 | 50 | 3 | 0.799 | 0.895 | 0.891 | 0.908 | 0.71 |
20,000 | 60 | 3 | 0.811 | 0.896 | 0.902 | 0.923 | 0.736 |
20,000 | 70 | 3 | 0.79 | 0.94 | 0.901 | 0.878 | 0.709 |
15,000 | 50 | 3 | 0.803 | 0.899 | 0.88 | 0.903 | 0.707 |
15,000 | 60 | 3 | 0.81 | 0.894 | 0.881 | 0.865 | 0.714 |
15,000 | 70 | 3 | 0.842 | 0.913 | 0.919 | 0.882 | 0.739 |
10,000 | 50 | 3 | 0.816 | 0.927 | 0.904 | 0.874 | 0.736 |
10,000 | 60 | 3 | 0.807 | 0.899 | 0.883 | 0.874 | 0.73 |
10,000 | 70 | 3 | 0.799 | 0.887 | 0.848 | 0.894 | 0.729 |
Label | Accuracy | Roc_Auc | Precision | Recall | F1_Score |
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Out of context | 0.752 | 0.811 | 0.717 | 0.638 | 0.675 |
Risk | 0.950 | 0.896 | 0.778 | 0.570 | 0.658 |
Environment | 0.924 | 0.902 | 0.784 | 0.543 | 0.642 |
Cost | 0.913 | 0.923 | 0.591 | 0.624 | 0.607 |
Perspective | 0.708 | 0.736 | 0.611 | 0.558 | 0.583 |
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Bilgin, U.; Soner Kara, S. Identification of Perceived Challenges in the Green Energy Transition by Turkish Society through Sentiment Analysis. Sustainability 2024, 16, 3367. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083367
Bilgin U, Soner Kara S. Identification of Perceived Challenges in the Green Energy Transition by Turkish Society through Sentiment Analysis. Sustainability. 2024; 16(8):3367. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083367
Chicago/Turabian StyleBilgin, Ugur, and Selin Soner Kara. 2024. "Identification of Perceived Challenges in the Green Energy Transition by Turkish Society through Sentiment Analysis" Sustainability 16, no. 8: 3367. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083367