Climate-friendly but socially rejected energy-transition pathways: The integration of techno-economic and socio-technical approaches in the Nordic-Baltic region

•Analysis of social acceptance combined with energy-system scenario modelling.•Social acceptance involves environmental, health, and distributional factors.•Results illustrate important energy-system effects of low social acceptance.•Low social acceptance of onshore wind and transmission favours local solutions.•No restrictions on power transmission raise consumer prices in the Nordic-Baltics.