Local community acceptance is of great importance to successfully realize offshore wind farm projects. This paper determines the influence factors to explain community acceptance. The factor analysis and the optimization of the multiple regression models provide eight optimum factors as follows: impression of the existing onshore wind farm and its projection to the offshore project, economic prosperity, reputation, global protection, local protection, interest in the project, tradition and culture, and evaluation of the nuclear power generation. In addition, local residents are clustered based on these factors, and their attitudes to offshore wind farm projects are discussed.

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