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I find that NIMBY concerns can be very much connected to cost and profits. Looking at wind farms which has both a lot of noise and visible footprint, people becomes much more acceptable to those costs if the profits from the farm ends up with people who live there.

An other comment here talked about how almost 80% of the energy bill in California are from fixed costs from primarily transmission. That is a lot of space to create economical incentive for people to have a plant located very near where they live. Similar, politicians are much more willing to be permissive with permits when there is an economical benefit for the region, as energy costs are quite significant bit of a regional budget.