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van, Veelen Bregje. "Devolution, democracy, and the challenge of diversity : community energy governance in Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28919.
Full textFriend, Sara. "Realities of an 'Orkney way' : communicating perceptions of renewable energy in Orkney, Scotland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10471.
Full textSchuette, Krystal M. "Endependence: renewable energy in a rural community." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8780.
Full textDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Mary C. Kingery-Page
Rural Kansas communities are almost entirely dependent on large energy corporations. These corporations, in turn, are almost completely dependent on fossil fuels for energy production. Three major implications exist within these dependencies: 1) the dependence of rural communities on large corporations reduces the potential of a local economy to support itself; 2) the dependence on fossil fuels has severe environmental impacts; and 3) fossil fuels are non-renewable resources and will inevitably be exhausted. A rural Kansas community has resources necessary to achieve and maintain energy independence in a renewable manner. The design of these systems in regard to economy, society, aesthetics, technology, and ecology will play a key role in sustaining these resources into the future. The intent of the project is to create a tool for rural communities to evaluate localized renewable energy potential using Washington, Kansas as an example. Several questions were addressed to determine the capacity and feasibility of each local energy resource: What renewable energy resources are available to a rural Kansas community and are they sufficient for the community to achieve energy independence? How can the resource or its production be designed and maintained in regard to its environmental impact and long-term viability? What are the implications of energy independence for the community’s identity? Because each question is dependent upon the answer to a previous question, a decision tree was the most viable method for the project’s analysis and development. Research into the technology and science associated with each resource provided a general knowledge of the definitions associated with and processes necessary to determine the feasibility of the resource. For resources receiving a positive feasibility rating, analysis continued with a basic cost/benefit analysis that compares potential costs involving implementation and maintenance with the payback, offsets, and incentives involved in utilizing each resource. Analysis of each feasible resource continued with site suitability analysis. The analysis of each resource resulted in resource maps showing potential implementation locations for three renewable resources studied: hydro, wind, and solar. The maps and accompanying graphics communicate the integration of renewable energy technologies into the existing community’s identity.
Behrendt, Thomas. "Community renewable energy projects - The role of small scale projects for energy transition." Thesis, Behrendt, Thomas (2014) Community renewable energy projects - The role of small scale projects for energy transition. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 2014. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/24573/.
Full textZahnd, Alexander. "The role of renewable energy technology in holistic community development." Thesis, Zahnd, Alexander (2012) The role of renewable energy technology in holistic community development. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2012. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/21881/.
Full textPathak, Ruchie. "Sharing the Sun: Community Solar in Ohio." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587682849293268.
Full textGreenius, Leigh, Elsa Jagniecki, and Kati Thompson. "Moving Towards Sustainable Community Renewable Energy : A Strategic Approach for Communities." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2609.
Full textStow, Maddy. "The carbon saving potential of community renewable energy in the UK." Thesis, University of Bath, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669033.
Full textPrevedi, Andrea. "Energy Communities in Italy." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/21973/.
Full textWlokas, Holle Linnea. "Implementing community renewables: institutional work in South Africa's renewable energy procurement programme." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26889.
Full textKarumba, Mary Muthoni. "Socio-economic analysis of community-based micro hydro electricity schemes in Kenya." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27067.
Full textRogers, Jennifer Claire. "The development and impacts of community renewable energy projects in rural Cumbria, UK." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551643.
Full textSawyer, Charles. "Meeting Future Electricity Needs in the East African Community : Mapping Renewable Energy Potential." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-284462.
Full textDen Östafrikanska Gemenskapen (EAC) är en mellanstatlig organisation av sex länder. Fem av de länderna har en låg utvecklingsnivå och en är klassificerad som medelnivå. Regionen har låg mänsklig utveckling och tillgång till elkraft men har bestämt att uppfylla globala målen 7: säkerställa tillgång till ekonomiskt överkomlig, tillförlitlig, hållbar och modern energi för alla. Denna uppsats utforskade potentialen för förnybar energi i den EAC på en regional nivå. Potentialen för solenergi och vindkraft i EAC undersöktes genom en analys av befintliga energisystem, en förenklad multikriterianalys genom geografiska informationssystem (GIS) och en jämförelse med liknande arbete från den International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). En liten men växande elsektor och ett primärt energisystem dominerat av traditionell biomassa identifierades i regionen. Kartläggningsanalysen identifierade stora områden i alla studerade länder som lämpliga för förnybar energi på, eller utanför, elnätet. Analysen fann också problem med resultaten från IRENAs arbete med Global Atlas of Renewable Energy projektet. Det finns god potential för sol- och vindkraft i EAC och möjligheten av ett lågkoldioxidenergisystem är diskuterade som en potential framtid för regionen.
Conedera, Katelynn Maria. "Consumer Support For Renewable Energy Systems: A Case Study Of Community Biodigesters In Vermont." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1054.
Full textMartiskainen, Mari. "Developing community energy projects : experiences from Finland and the UK." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/51506/.
Full textButu, Ahmed Ibrahim. "Energy and sustainability transitions : the case of community renewables for off-grid rural electrification in Nigeria with emphasis on Shape community project." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2438.
Full textBellew, Sarah Louise. "Investigation of the response of groups of wave energy devices." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/investigation-of-the-response-of-groups-of-wave-energy-devices(3db5db0d-a6af-4715-9f0b-19d53cf6dcf4).html.
Full textMavindidze, Zororo. "The contribution of renewable energy technologies to sustainable community development in Rusitu Valley, Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4066.
Full textThis exploratory study is based on the case of the Rusitu Valley, a low income rural community in Zimbabwe. Data was collected using largely qualitative methods and quantitative methods were used to obtain supportive descriptive statistics. Information elicited from focus group discussions conducted with members of the Rusitu Valley community as well as responses obtained from a brief structured questionnaire were used to abstract the Rusitu Valley as a complex adaptive system. Input from in-depth interviews with government representatives in energy policy, local government and non-governmental organisations as well as a review of secondary sources was used to support the analysis and confirm the contextual validity of the study. This study revealed that there is intimate connection between renewable energy technologies and sustainable community development. A key finding was that the contribution of renewable energy technologies in Rusitu Valley is mostly towards the economic dimensions of the community and is relatively limited with regard to social and environmental dimensions. Therefore, this study concluded that renewable energy technologies have not sufficiently contributed towards sustainable community development in the Rusitu Valley. This study also found that the contribution of renewable energy technologies is constrained not only by internal limitations but also external factors. A conclusion drawn from this study was that effective contribution of renewable energy technologies towards social, economic and environmental facets can be enhanced through mainstreaming of renewable energy in policy and planning, as well strengthening institutions and local capacity which would have the overall effect of sustainable community development in low income communities
Dlamini, Letsiwe Thulisile Sibongile. "Investigating alternative funding sources for community equity ownership in renewable energy projects in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13637.
Full textThe combined effect of a number of factors has forced the Government of South Africa to launch and seek to expand the renewable energy sector through the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REI4P). Such elements include environmental issues, especially climate change; the need to diversify energy sources in order for the country to be energy secure; and the developmental potential that investment in a new industry, in this instance the renewable energy industry, can bring in terms of job creation, economic growth and the exploitation of abundant natural resources. In addition to the REI4P, the Government has also been compelled to seek to expand energy supply in the country, in general, due to the energy crisis, which in turn, is closely associated with a population that is growing at a pace that is much faster than the rate at which energy can be readily supplied. Community Equity Ownership (CEO) or local community ownership is a unique feature of the REI4P that has recently come under close scrutiny due to its requirement for project companies to offer a minimum of 2.5% to 5% shares of their companies to local communities residing within a 50km radius of their renewable energy plants, in an effort to contribute toward their socio-economic development; the challenges presented by community trusts; and the subsequent resistance towards the notion of local community ownership by REI4P project companies. It is the subject of this research because it is still a critical and integral component of the REI4P and challenges associated with its financing have, in the past, jeopardised the accomplishment of the very goals for which it was constituted. The value of Social License to Operate (SLO) is that it can lay the foundation for positive relations to prevail between communities and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in the pursuit of a viable renewable energy industry and increased energy supply in South Africa. To this end, the study demonstrates that whilst CEO is obligated in the REI4P, it also constitutes SLO because if communities own shares in REI4P projects, they are more likely to cooperate with them. Thus, the CEO, Socio-Economic Development (SED) and Enterprise Development (ED) requirements of the REI4P essentially constitute the SLO ‘building blocks’ for the Programme. Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) have been at the forefront of funding local community ownership, although other financial institutions, including commercial banks xiv have started financing it as well, while requiring guarantees and security from communities, which can offer neither. The continued implementation of the REI4P, as well as the launch of the Baseload IPP Programme and the Medium Term Risk Mitigation Project, will ultimately increase the total number of IPP Programmes in the country and will likely intensify the demand for finances to fund CEO. In view of this, where will the funding for this key aspect of the current and proposed IPP Programmes come from? This study sought to identify alternative funding options for CEO in order to ensure its continuity in both the REI4P and the proposed IPP Programmes. An exploratory research design was pursued for the study in view of data limitations arising from the infancy of the renewable energy sector in South Africa. Moreover, a questionnaire survey was undertaken and a purposive sampling technique was used to interrogate a select group of financial institutions and REI4P Independent Power Producers (IPPs), with a view to determine what their experiences have been in relation to funding CEO, as well as to identify alternative funding options for it, going forward. In this regard, a sample size of 15 was taken out of a combined total of 72 financial institutions and IPPs. Thematic content analysis was subsequently performed to process the data. The main risk associated with financing CEO that was identified by stakeholders has to do with a lack of security in lending to disadvantaged communities because they often have no collateral and can offer no guarantees that demonstrate their capacity to repay debts. Furthermore, the establishment of a Grant Scheme for funding CEO, on the one hand, and a Guarantee and Incentive Programme, on the other, wherein Government stands in as guarantor for communities as they borrow funds to facilitate CEO; were found to be potentially instrumental in widening the pool of funding for CEO. Increased vendor support and more ‘preferential’ loan terms and ‘softer’ loans from DFIs were also identified as critical in the endeavour to increase the funding sources for CEO. Although the use of the Government Pension Fund to warehouse shares on behalf of communities and utilising communal land as equity both hold some promise; they require further research. It is, therefore, concluded that there is potential for alternative funding options for community equity ownership in the REI4P. The study also found that, based on the experiences of survey respondents, there are inadequate sources of finance for CEO, in light of the increasing pressure on available financial opportunities. To this end, the delineation between the xv potential for funding local community shareholding in REI4P projects and actual access to funding is fundamental.
Nolden, Colin. "Regulating the diffusion of renewable energy technologies : interactions between community energy and the feed-in tariff in the UK." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/9884.
Full textGreenhouse, Benjamin. "Community Characteristics and Their Influence on Community Renewable Energy Projects: A Case Study of Cang Dong Village, Hainan, China." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/968.
Full textFollowing an examination of how these characteristics might manifest themselves in a Chinese context, the five characteristics were used as a heuristic to guide the second stage of the research process: a case study of a community biogas project in Cang Dong Village in China's Hainan province. This case study suggests that the success of Cang Dong's biogas project was directly influenced by four main factors: effective leadership from local government, access to technical resources, economic perceptions and realities, and biophysical resources appropriate to the technologies being used. The impact of the community's past experience with innovation & cooperation and their strong stock of social capital were more ambiguous; although the community had past experience with cooperative and innovative projects, along with a high stock of social capital, a direct link between these characteristics and the success of the biogas project could not be conclusively determined.
As a result of the case study, this thesis concludes with an outline of a general framework that could be used to evaluate the suitability of a community for a community renewable energy project. This outline is presented acknowledging the exploratory nature of this research and follows the need for more research on this topic.
Ogunlade, Abimbola Adegoke. "Comparative cost-benefit analysis of renewable energy resources for rural community development in Nigeria / A.A. Ogunlade." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2646.
Full textThesis (M.Ing. (Development and Management Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.
Mbulayi, Shingirai P. "Energy and sustainable development: the case of Dewedzo rural community in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/866.
Full textRobertson, Laurie Lee. "Enacting change with renewable energy : a situational analysis of Udny's Community Turbine and Trust : towards an ecological sociology." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=238633.
Full textSüsser, Diana [Verfasser], and Beate M. W. [Akademischer Betreuer] Ratter. "People-Powered Local Energy Transition : Mitigating Climate Change with Community-Based Renewable Energy in North Frisia / Diana Süsser. Betreuer: Beate M.W. Ratter." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1111778353/34.
Full textSüsser, Diana Verfasser], and Beate M. W. [Akademischer Betreuer] [Ratter. "People-Powered Local Energy Transition : Mitigating Climate Change with Community-Based Renewable Energy in North Frisia / Diana Süsser. Betreuer: Beate M.W. Ratter." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-80340.
Full textJansén, Jan. "Agriculture, energy and sustainability : case studies of a local farming community in Sweden /." Uppsala : Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniv.), 2000. http://epsilon.slu.se/avh/2000/91-576-5767-X.pdf.
Full textYuan, Chen. "RESILIENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS WITH COMMUNITY MICROGRIDS." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1480478081556766.
Full textFergen, Joshua Travis. "Emerging Energy Geographies of Wind: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Investigate the Relationshisp to Wind Energy across Geographies and Social Groups." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587710844791088.
Full textLewandowski, Samantha Whitney. "Consumer Engagement With Efficient And Renewable Energy Technology: Case Studies On Smart Meter Utilization And Support For A Community Anaerobic Biodigester System In Vermont." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/859.
Full textRanaboldo, Matteo. "Design of off-grid renewable energy community electrification projects : analysis of micro-scale resource variations and development of optimization methods." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/286287.
Full textLos proyectos de electrificación basados en energías renovables han demostrado ser una opción adecuada y sostenible para abastecer comunidades aisladas de forma autónoma. Estos sistemas producen energía de manera limpia y respetuosa del medio ambiente y su coste es a menudo inferior al de extender la red eléctrica nacional. Las configuraciones de diseño más fiables y eficientes utilizan sistemas híbridos que combinan varios recursos (eólico y solar) y distribución mediante microrredes. El diseño de proyectos de electrificación rural considerando sistemas híbridos y microrredes se ha definido como el problema AVEREMS. La optimización del problema AVEREMS es una tarea compleja que requiere el uso de herramientas de soporte. Actualmente, el proceso de diseño de proyectos de electrificación basados en energía renovables presenta algunas limitaciones. Entre ellas, destacan la falta de conocimientos sobre estudios del recurso eólico y la necesidad de procedimientos para resolver el problema AVEREMS incluyendo la generación alejada de los puntos de consumo para aprovechar las áreas de mayor potencial. El principal objetivo de esta tesis es abordar dichas limitaciones, mediante: 1) la definición de un método para evaluar en detalle el recurso eólico en proyectos de electrificación rural; 2) el desarrollo y 3) la implementación de procedimientos para resolver el problema AVEREMS considerando la variación del recurso a micro-escala y generación en todos los puntos (sean estos de consumo o de no-consumo) de una determinada área. Primero se presenta un método para realizar estudios del recurso eólico mediante el uso de modelos de flujo de viento a micro-escala. El método se valida en dos comunidades montañosas y se aplica para el diseño de proyectos reales en Cabo Verde. Sucesivamente, se desarrollan diferentes procedimientos resolutivos: primero se definen unos indicadores de soporte al diseño, y sucesivamente se presentan dos algoritmos (uno heurístico y otro meta-heurístico) para resolver el problema AVEREMS. Se analizan diferentes versiones de los algoritmos para finalmente seleccionar las que obtienen los mejores resultados. Además de considerar generación en todos los puntos (de consumo o de no-consumo) de una cierta área, los algoritmos propuestos mejoran considerablemente las prestaciones de los métodos disponibles actualmente. Finalmente, se analiza el diseño de un proyecto de electrificación en una comunidad rural en Nicaragua incluyendo la evaluación de recurso a micro-escala y la aplicación del algoritmo meta-heurístico para la optimización del diseño. La metodología para la evaluación del recurso eólico y los algoritmos resolutivos desarrollados en esta tesis se pueden fácilmente aplicar para suportar el diseño de proyectos de electrificación rural con energías renovables. Su utilización permitirá mejorar la eficiencia y sostenibilidad de estos proyectos reduciendo algunos de los problemas técnicos que limitan su implementación en comunidades aisladas
Skill, Emily E. "Developing, Adopting, and Executing 100% Net-Renewable Electricity Resolutions at the Local Level." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7640.
Full textBode, Christiaan César. "An analysis of collective ownership models to promote renewable energy development and climate justice in South Africa / Christiaan César Bode." Thesis, North-West University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10004.
Full textM. Development and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013
Mroz-Barrett, Meaghan. "Utility Scale Solar Projects in California: An Initial Survey." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2015. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1430.
Full textEl, Badawi El Najjar Rachad. "Collaborative methods and tools to remotely develop multi-sites engineering standards : the case of GE renewable energy-hydro." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAI002/document.
Full textIn a global economy, the conquest of exploring and acquiring new markets has led many companies to expand their business around the globe. Many companies adopted a strategy of shifting from a centralized company where products were designed and manufactured in one region to a decentralized company, and then to a distributed organization over the regions. Our thesis context is GE Renewable Energy – Hydro solutions that designs and manufactures hydraulic power plants. GE hydro organization is scattered over 5 regions (North America, Latin America, Europe, China and India). Each region became part of this distributed organization where they participated in the designing and the manufacturing of the hydraulic turbines/ generators. However, new challenges arose in this distributed product development process: specific market needs, different working practices, various design methods, multitude of design tools in addition to the cultural differences among the regions.In order to rationalize the regional differences, the distributed development of hydraulic turbines and generators entailed several objectives. For example, standardization of engineering processes, development of common design guides for engineering tools, harmonization of quality sheets and troubleshooting procedures. Hydro organization has entrusted these objectives to the virtual engineering collectives who are dispersed in all the regions.Our research aimed at studying and supporting the virtual engineering collectives in the co-creation of corporate engineering standards and guidelines. The virtual engineering collectives involved the designers, industrial engineers, technicians as well as the end-users. They had to remotely collaborate in order to co-develop the engineering standards and later on to adopt them in customer projects.Since the virtual engineering collectives were at the core of our standardization approach, the thesis addressed the following research questions:1- “which collaborative standardization process and platform could enable the engineering collectives to co-develop their standards at distance?”2- “what are the characteristics of the different virtual collectives’ types which suit respectively the collaborative standardization process?”3- “which operational process has to be defined to ease the work of the virtual engineering collectives within a project based management style?”From the literature, we defined and differentiated the virtual engineering collectives’ types as virtual communities of practice and/or interest, virtual teams and networks of learning. Through observations and reflections from the practice, we have developed and tested our propositions. The main thesis’ contributions are summarized as follows:1- The collaborative standardization process to co-develop the engineering standards at distance.2- HySPeC templates – the collaborative standardization platform - to respond to the different requirements of the collaborative standardization process.3- The virtual collectives’ dynamics (VCD) model to characterize the virtual collectives in function of their development phases.4- The virtual collectives’ framework (VCF) to select, differentiate and fit the virtual collectives in function of the project’s objectives.5- The virtual collectives’ operational process to facilitate the adoption and the implementation of the engineering standards in the customers’ projects.The top management at GE Hydro found the proposed collaborative standardization approach able to co-develop the engineering standards at distance. The different virtual collectives’ types can fit and adapt to the collaborative standardization process and intuitively use the collaborative platform’ functionalities. The approach also provided an operational process to facilitate the integration and the work of the virtual engineering collectives within the distributed hydro organization
HAN, YU. "The sustainable development at the community level: A case study of Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448613.
Full textStjernquist, Desatnik Marie. "Energy Access for the Most Vulnerable Groups : A Study on the Long-Term Effects of Energy Access in a Refugee Camp Context with Inclusion of the Host Community." Thesis, KTH, Energiteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-256230.
Full textCruickshank, Kyle Mark. "The perceived visual impacts and attitudes of the Grahamstown community towards the Waainek Wind-Farm." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011768.
Full textDobigny, Laure. "Quand l'énergie change de mains : socio-anthropologie de l'autonomie énergétique locale au moyen d'énergies renouvelables en Allemagne, Autriche et France." Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01H230.
Full textThe development of renewable energy (RE) in Europe has been sustained, inter alia, by unconventional players in the energy sector: individuals, fanners, and local communities. As a result, over 50% of renewable energy generation capacity in Germany is citizen-owned. Thus more and more rural communities are achieving local energy independence, producing as much or even more than they consume, whether they are connected to national power grids or not (microgrids). What has led these citizens and local governments to become individually and collectively energy self-sufficient? And what are the implications of this local appropriation of energy on representations of energy and its use, social organization, social cohesion, local economies, and collective identity? These questions have guided this socio-anthropological study of five communities in Germany, Austria, and France. The transnational analysis also compares two levels of energy independence: individual (domestic) and collective (community). Changing the level of analysis makes it possible to question the role of the technical system in energy use, as well as the pioneering and key role farmers play in the choice of renewables - in order to better understand its social meaning. Within the large technical system, the choice of local energy independence, and the alternative it represents, has political, social, environmental, technical, economic, and symbolic dimensions. Because, ultimately, when energy changes hands, power does as well
Manrique, Ana Katherine Rodríguez. "Diretrizes para a sustentabilidade de uma minirrede de sistemas solares fotovoltaicos em uma região isolada da Colômbia." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2015. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1377.
Full textEste trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento de um estudo técnico social para definir as diretrizes que garantam a sustentabilidade de uma minirrede baseada em sistemas solares fotovoltaicos, localizados nas Zonas Não Interconectadas (ZNI) da Colômbia. A literatura da pesquisa está baseada na importância da energia elétrica e das construções sustentáveis para o homem e nos princípios de energia solar e de minirredes baseadas em sistemas solares fotovoltaicos. Após este levantamento, aplicou-se o método de pesquisa documental para contextualizar o leitor com os aspectos mais importantes sobre a Colômbia e sua realidade hoje. A partir destes aspectos foi possível concentrar a pesquisa em uma região, selecionada a partir de critérios de recurso solar disponível, economia, segurança, saúde e educação. Uma vez escolhida a região, foi feita uma pesquisa de campo em que foram entrevistados os agentes que podem influenciar no funcionamento de uma minirrede. Também foram observados os aspectos técnicos relacionados com as construções e a eficiência energética desta região, constatando que a mesma já contou, em alguma ocasião, com sistemas solares fotovoltaicos, mas estes foram vendidos pela própria comunidade por não encontrarem utilidade nenhuma neles. A partir das respostas encontradas nas entrevistas foi feita uma proposta de gestão da minirrede baseada em sistemas solares fotovoltaicos. Concluiu-se que é primordial que os agentes técnicos e administrativos do sistema como um todo tenham contato contínuo com o usuário para entender as suas necessidades e conseguir satisfazê-las com a instalação da minirrede. Também se observou que é importante criar no usuário um sentido de posse pela minirrede, identificando os benefícios educativos, de saúde e econômicos que esta nova tecnologia traz para ele. Este estudo abre as portas para novas pesquisas de avaliação e descrição das diretrizes propostas.
This research presents the development of a social-technical study to define guidelines to ensure the sustainability of a mini-grid based on solar photovoltaic systems located in Non Interconnected Areas (NIA) of Colombia. The literature of this research is based on the importance of energy and sustainable buildings to people, the principles of solar PV, and mini-grid based on solar photovoltaic systems. After this firt part, was applied the method of documentary research to contextualize the reader with the main relevant aspects of Colombia related to the research. From these aspects, it was possible to focus the research to a region, which was chosen by criterias such as: solar resource, economy, security, health and education. When the area was chosen, it was made a field survey. In this survey the agents that influence the operation of a mini network were interviwed. Also, it was observed the technical aspects of buildings, and the energy efficiency in this region. As a result it was observed that in the past there were PV solar systems, but these were sold by the community because they did not find them useful. From the interview answers, it was made a proposal about the management of the mini-grid based on solar photovoltaic systems. In conclusion, it is essential that the technical and administrative agents that make part of this system have continuous contact with the user to understand their needs and satisfy them with the installation of mini-grid. It is also important to create a sense of belonging from the user to the mini-grid, identifying the benefits, educational, health and economic that this new technology brings to him. This study opens the door to new research about evaluations and descriptions about the proposed guidelines.
Soeiro, Susana Teixeira. "Essays on renewable energy communities." Doctoral thesis, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/33475.
Full textAs tendências ambientais e económicas das últimas décadas forçaram o mundo a repensar urgentemente os mercados energéticos atuais e a oferta de energia. Assim, um estudo mais aprofundado sobre a Comunidades de Energia Renováveis (CER) é uma preocupação recente e emergente devido ao seu papel relevante em alguns mercados energéticos e, em alguns casos, pelo seu papel-chave no futuro. Esta nova geração de intervenção cidadã apresenta-se como uma forma de democratizar o sector energético em todas as suas fases, desde a produção até ao abastecimento. A energia comunitária representa uma forma jurídica de negócio presente em todo o mundo e em toda a economia, nomeadamente na agricultura, nas finanças, no consumo geral, e na produção industrial, ainda que em menor escala. De acordo com a Aliança Cooperativa (ICA), a definição é clara. Os objetivos deste modelo empresarial são o aumento da participação dos seus membros e a governação para um novo nível; posicionar a energia comunitária como construtores de sustentabilidade, construir a mensagem energética comunitária e assegurar a identidade comunitária, assegurar estruturas legais para apoiar o crescimento da comunidade e garantir capital comunitário fiável, assegurar o controlo dos membros. Argumenta-se frequentemente que as leis e regulamentos levantam várias restrições à CER. Por conseguinte, o desenvolvimento das energias renováveis deve ser apoiado por políticas públicas, em todos os países europeus. O desenvolvimento das CER não aparenta ser o mesmo em todos os estados-membros. Além disso, o seu desenvolvimento parece mesmo ser diferente, e dependendo do país europeu. Nos países do sul da Europa, que não têm uma tradição de disseminação de energia verde, mostram um desenvolvimento inferior de CER. Então através de um questionário dirigido aos participantes nas CER e um questionário dirigido à população em geral, pretende-se estudar e compreender melhor quais são as iniciativas energéticas dos cidadãos, as suas principais características, benefícios, barreiras e as motivações dos indivíduos que nelas participam. A participação dos cidadãos é um ponto crucial para o desenvolvimento das comunidades. A principal motivação para a participação parece ser a preocupação com os impactos ambientais e climáticos. Observamos também que, nestas comunidades, a confiança é apontada como importante para o desenvolvimento de qualquer projeto RE. Quanto aos benefícios, os resultados conduzem a importantes perceções: em primeiro lugar, é mencionado, pelos participantes no survey, que os benefícios ambientais superam os financeiros ao criar e desenvolver CER's. Em segundo lugar, é importante destacar que os benefícios e impactos que as CER trazem para as regiões onde são criadas são percecionados como essenciais. Sobre as barreiras, as políticas ambientais e os custos são das barreiras que mais são apontadas à adoção e ao desenvolvimento das CER. Finalmente, mostrou-se a existência de uma disparidade entre os países do sul da Europa e os do norte da Europa, justificando-se essa diferença por fatores económicos, ambientais e pelo quadro legislativo. Em suma, as CER mostram-se importantes para a transição energética, devendo ser apoiada pelos governos europeus e pelas políticas nacionais e europeias.
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Cook, Dana. "A powerful landscape: first nations small-scale renewable energy development in British Columbia." Thesis, 2019. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/10586.
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Barton, David. "Social and technical aspects of community level decision-making on energy options in two remote island communities." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151035.
Full textIhbal, Abdel-Baset M. I., Haile S. Rajamani, Raed A. Abd-Alhameed, Mohamed K. Jalboub, A. S. Elmeshregi, and M. A. Aljaddal. "Development of Electricity Pricing Criteria at Residential Community Level." 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/8302.
Full textIn the UK there is no real time retail market, and hence no real time retail electricity pricing. Therefore domestic electricity consumers in the UK pay electricity prices that do not vary from hour to hour, but are rather some kind of average price. Real time pricing information was identified as a barrier to understanding the effectiveness of various incentives and interventions. The key question is whether we can evaluate energy management and renewable energy intervention in the behaviour of customers in real market terms. Currently only behaviour changes with respect to total consumption can be evaluated. Interventions cannot be defined for peak load behaviour. The effectiveness of the introduction of renewable energy is also hard to assess. Therefore, it is hard to justify introducing of renewable and demand side management at local community level, apart from when following government approved schemes, subsidies, and other initiatives. In this paper, a new criteria has been developed to help developers and planners of local residential communities to understand the cost of intervention, in order to evaluate where the load is when the prices are high.
Sherk, Theodore. "Residential Solar Energy Adoption in a Community Context: Perceptions and Characteristics of Potential Adopters in a West Toronto Neighbourhood." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6528.
Full textRanzanici, Andrea. "Sustainability Comparison between EnDev and not-EnDev Micro-Hydro Power (MHP) in Indonesia : Analysis of the long-term technical, social, environmental and economic sustainability of the rural energy infrastructure of MHP in Indonesia." Thesis, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-129289.
Full textGliedt, Travis. "Green Decision Making by Organizations: Understanding Strategic Energy Choices." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6275.
Full textGarlicki, Marek. "Lobbing polskich organizacji pozarządowych związanych z energetyką odnawialną w UE." Doctoral thesis, 2019. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/3424.
Full textThe subject of the doctoral dissertation focuses on lobbying activities in the European Union conducted by Polish non-governmental organizations related to renewable energy sources (RES). However, it should be stipulated that the subject of the analysis has been limited to formal activities because all informal and confidential lobbying activities are very difficult to investigate due to the very limited possibility of acquiring empirical data. It is also worth noting that the dissertation has multi-faceted character, as it raises different issues: the issue of lobbying in the European Union, the issue of EU energy and climate policy, or the issue of activities of non-governmental organizations. The aim of the dissertation is to analyze lobbying activities undertaken by Polish NGOs related to RES in two following dimensions. The first one refers to the impact of lobbying of these NGOs on legislation in the area of energy and climate policy in the EU. The second one refers to the influence on Polish society’s perception of RES. The research hypothesis assumes that lobbying activities of Polish NGOs related to RES are effective because they strongly influence the directions of EU energy and climate policy, and positive attitudes towards energy from renewable sources prevail among Polish citizens. The structure of the dissertation includes an introduction, five chapters and summary. Each chapter aims to bring to the verification of the hypothesis. The first chapter defines renewable energy sources and describes the EU energy and climate policy and the process of its shaping. The second chapter focuses on defining Polish NGOs related to renewable energy and their role as a lobbying entity in the EU. The third chapter presents lobbying strategies as well as methods and instruments used in the context of two areas of influence – namely EU legislation and Polish public opinion. In order to verify the independent variable regarding the attitudes of Polish society, a quantitative empirical study (survey) was conducted on a representative sample of adult Polish citizens. The analysis of data obtained during the survey is presented in the fourth chapter. Finally, the fifth chapter has been divided into two parts corresponding to the verification of two independent variables. In the first part, by means of the network analysis, the author recreated the channels of influence of Polish NGOs related to RES on the EU institutions. In the second part, the results of a conducted survey are interpreted in order to measure the level of effectiveness of impact from this perspective. In the course of analysis, the research hypothesis has been verified positively. In case of the first independent variable, the author, by means of recreated channels of influence, came to the conclusions that lobbying activities of Polish NGOs related to RES is effective. Nevertheless, some differences were noted between the analyzed organizations. The network analysis shows that environmental NGOs and their coalitions have bigger impact than NGOs representing companies from RES industry. The second independent variable has also been verified positively. It is concluded by the fact that the survey clearly showed that strong support of RES and positive beliefs about it are prevailing in Polish society.
Miller, Gwen M. "Wind Power, Public Power: Evaluating Public Participation in New England Land-based Wind Development." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1068.
Full textSibisi, Ncamisile Teressa. "Evaluation of the acceptability, impact and feasibility of biogas digesters in rural Maphephetheni, KwaZulu-Natal." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6249.
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