Exploring the relationships and importance among constructs of hydrogen energy awareness: A PLS-SEM approach

This study aims to explore the relationships and importance among the constructs of hydrogen energy (HE) public awareness. For this, a conceptual model incorporating the constructs as general hydrogen, legal regulation, environmental, economic, and meet to energy demand awareness was proposed. A PLS-SEM methodology was employed to analyze the hypotheses based on these relationships by collecting data from individuals. The results indicated that all hypotheses were supported and significant positive relationships were found among the constructs of HE awareness. General HE awareness (GHE) was found as an initial step and the most crucial construct in the awareness of meeting the energy demand although the importance of constructs was close to each other. The effect of GHE on Legal Regulation and Environmental Awareness are more higher while the influence of Legal Regulation on Economical Awareness is lowest. Otherhand, Economical Awareness was the least important according to IPMA analysis.