Promoting Community Renewable Energy as a tool for Sustainable Development in Rural Areas of Thailand

Chaichana, Chatchawan; Wongsapai, Wongkot; Damrongsak, Det; Ishihara, Keiichi N.; Luangchosiri, Nilubon

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.11.022

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“…In this study, we categorized a household scale biogas plant as small and anything larger as moderate or large, with medium-and large-scale biogas plants defined as those operating at the community and city levels, respectively. Biogas outputs of smaller scale biogas plants are commonly used for cooking fuel and lighting in rural areas, though one study found a featured community level biogas plant to supply cooking fuel for roughly 1000 households in Thailand [37]. Heat and electricity are other common uses of biogas across different capacities while only large-scale biogas plants appear to be feasible for biogas upgrading to natural gas quality and for fuel generation (e.g., for public transportation).…”

Section: Biogas Plant Project Features From the Collected Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Capacity Small-scale plants using animal manure are commonly found in the rural area. Household scale (small) ( [25,40,57,58]) Community or city scale (medium to large) ( [37,39,42,46])…”

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“…Cooking fuel and Lighting ( [37,40,59,60]) Heat and electricity ( [43,50,61,62]) Gas (upgraded to natural gas quality) ( [26,63,64])…”

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Challenges and an Implementation Framework for Sustainable Municipal Organic Waste Management Using Biogas Technology in Emerging Asian Countries

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Due to its ability to recover both material and energy from organic waste, biogas technology is considered the best technology for treating organic waste. While in many emerging Asian countries more than 50% of municipal waste is organic waste, the amount of organic waste treated with biogas technology remains very limited. This study identified key challenges faced by practitioners in sustaining biogas plants from literature and interviewed a number of sustainably operating biogas plant managers and, based on the findings, developed an implementation framework to help decision makers and practitioners in planning a sustainable municipal organic waste biogas plant facility.

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Section: Biogas Plant Project Features From the Collected Literaturementioning

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“…Capacity Small-scale plants using animal manure are commonly found in the rural area. Household scale (small) ( [25,40,57,58]) Community or city scale (medium to large) ( [37,39,42,46])…”

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Challenges and an Implementation Framework for Sustainable Municipal Organic Waste Management Using Biogas Technology in Emerging Asian Countries

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“…CRE offers communities the ability to tackle poverty and raise the standard of living [1][2][3]. Many studies have argued that various socioeconomic benefits are to be gained from the production and use of renewable energy (RE) resources at the community level [4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. These benefits include job creation, income generation, self-sufficient energy supply, social cohesion, and human capacity development.…”

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Success Factors for the Implementation of Community Renewable Energy in Thailand

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Community renewable energy (CRE) has recently been proposed as one of the effective policy tools to make a community sustainable and to strengthen this association. CRE is, however, not widespread yet in Thailand, and evidence-based research on CRE in the country is rather scarce. This paper aims to investigate the characteristics of CRE in Thailand to identify the key factors affecting its implementation. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and document analysis for 26 active CRE projects in Thailand. Results show that the characteristics of CRE in Thailand are rooted in the geographical location of a community. A legal structure was created from a pre-existing group to implement a CRE project. The primary motivation for implementing CRE is sustainable development of a community. We examined essential factors separated into two groups—internal and external factors—in reference to CRE in developed nations. We highlight several issues concerning the further development of CRE in Thailand. First, a strong group leader and a formal structure are essential to drive and manage a project. Second, networks of CRE projects and long-term revolving funds are crucial external support to implement CRE.

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“…Appropriate technology is selected based on the availability of local energy resources and equipment, trained human resources, the degree of material resources, and the degree of the local construction resources. However, for the development of the project in the Nišava District, the construction of the renewable energy technologies and resources of developed countries is required [10,11].…”

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Adjustable Model of Renewable Energy Projects for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Nišava District in Serbia

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This paper explores and ranks the key performance indicators of multi-criteria decision-making in the process of selecting renewable energy sources (RES). Different categories of factors (e.g., political, legal, technological, economic and financial, sociocultural, and physical) are crucial for the analysis of such projects. In this paper, we apply the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (fuzzy AHP) method-a mathematical method-in order to analyze the main criteria for such projects, which include the environment, the organizational management structure, project participants, and participants' relationship with the performance indicators. In order of ranking, the indicators are the following: time, costs, quality, monitoring the project's sustainability, user feedback, and users' health and safety. The aim of this paper is to point out the necessity of creating an adjustable model for renewable energy projects in order to proceed with the sustainable development of the southeast part of Serbia. This model should lead the creation process for such a project, with the aim of increasing its energy efficiency.

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Promoting Community Renewable Energy as a tool for Sustainable Development in Rural Areas of Thailand

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Challenges and an Implementation Framework for Sustainable Municipal Organic Waste Management Using Biogas Technology in Emerging Asian Countries

Challenges and an Implementation Framework for Sustainable Municipal Organic Waste Management Using Biogas Technology in Emerging Asian Countries

Success Factors for the Implementation of Community Renewable Energy in Thailand

Adjustable Model of Renewable Energy Projects for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Nišava District in Serbia

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