Bhumkittipich, P.; Ohgaki, H. Development Strategy for Sustainable Solar Home System in the Akha Upland Community of Thailand. Energies2018, 11, 1509.
Bhumkittipich, P.; Ohgaki, H. Development Strategy for Sustainable Solar Home System in the Akha Upland Community of Thailand. Energies 2018, 11, 1509.
Bhumkittipich, P.; Ohgaki, H. Development Strategy for Sustainable Solar Home System in the Akha Upland Community of Thailand. Energies2018, 11, 1509.
Bhumkittipich, P.; Ohgaki, H. Development Strategy for Sustainable Solar Home System in the Akha Upland Community of Thailand. Energies 2018, 11, 1509.
Abstract
The fact that Thailand’s energy policy has set a new renewable energy target of 30% of total final energy consumption by 2036. It also has the potential of solar energy and community demands in remote areas. However, most of the renewable energy technology will still be able to achieve renewable energy goals, similar to the case of the national policy that promotes Solar Home System (SHS) in remote areas, lack of good handling. Therefore, achieving the goal of the renewable energy policy should be in position using the right strategy. This article presents the result of a case study in the Akha upland community, northern Thailand, where we used the mixing method and factor analysis to analyze strategies for SHS related criteria. The key scopes and challenge included bottom-up planning concepts and subsidies from expert persons, while contributions to factors have an impact on developing sustainable SHS, include the creating approval of SHS technologies, developing of SHS management, promoting of SHS technologies, and supporting of SHS policies, respectively. Mainly, social factors provide positive effects, which thus influence the sustainable development of process SHS in terms of the creation of approval. Furthermore, there should be managed appropriately for each community, for the positive imagery of solar power.
Keywords
remote areas; solar home system; sustainable development
Subject
Engineering, Energy and Fuel Technology
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