Abstract
Utilization of renewable energy technologies has short-term,middle-term and long term interests. Since the portion of renewableenergies have to increase 10% till 2025, legislating relevant policies forincreasing the portion of these energies is essential. This article reportsstudies about the social acceptance level of renewable energies in aselected developing country by using social acceptance pyramid. First,the identified indicators are weighted based on the circumstances ofrenewable energies. After that, the selected renewable sources, wind,solar, and geothermal, are ranked based on the indicators and analyticalhierarchy process. The research results indicate that wind energy hasthe better social acceptance position than solar and geothermal energies.Finally, some polices are suggested for increasing the acceptance level ofall renewable energies in developing countries.
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