Dear Anislei

Please have a look to this article title "An

impact assessment methodology for small scale renewable energy projects in developing countries......." 

http://edocs.fu-berlin.de/docs/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/FUDOCS_derivate_000000001374/Balkema-An_impact_assessment_methodology_for_small_scale_renewable_energy_projects-425.pdf?hosts=

Thanks Ali! I am really interested on this field. Will read it carefully

Thank you very much dear Ali!

I'll check the item very carefully.

For the financial analysis between models (standard x renewable) could measure the differences between spending on creating a standard electrical network in relation to renewable models.

In economic and social analysis, evaluate the benefits of renewable energy for a population of low and high income. (renewable sources is easily accessible for low-income people?). What losses (unemployed and cancellations of eletricas companies). How and who will have control.

I will suggest you to get in touch with Mr. Debajit Palit. He works in energy access and its socio-economic impact assessment. His profile is https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Debajit_Palit

Regards,

Manoj

Vattenfall of Sweden has done Social LCAs of electricity systems. You may find some good information from them.

estimated Mario

Thank you very much for the ideas you offer me, those I have in mind for carrying out the work, you commented promptly to live in Cuba, meaning that there is only one electricity company who directs the subject of generation, distribution of electric energy throughout the country, my main question is directed to the creation of SMEs engaged in power generation in rural communities, ie the social impact by doing this. I am very interested achieve gender measure that is energizing impact on rural women.

Thank you very much. Manoj and Michael

I'll check both suggestions.

Anislei,

you may want to consider "old world" farmers' reluctance to change their behaviour without longterm incentive. Read what my colleague Chris Sherrington wrote some years ago.

1. Sherrington C, Bartley J, Moran D (2008) Farm-level constraints on the domestic supply of perennial energy crops in the UK. Energy Policy 36 (7):2504-2512. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2008.03.004

2. Sherrington C, Moran D (2010) Modelling farmer uptake of perennial energy crops in the UK. Energy Policy 38 (7):3567-3578. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.02.034

He has also written about wind farms

If you send me your email link I can send you a pdf

Cheers, Goetz

Thanks friend Goetz.

Items will consult you propose, I leave my email for you to send me what you mention me. Is [email protected]

Dear Anislei, from a methodological standpoint you have the following options to assess social impacts: cost-benefit analysis (with external costs) for local impacts, social LCA for global impacts, willingness-to-pay or willingness-to-accept analysis for monetarisation of benefits vs burdens, analysis of regional value added for local socio-economic impacts, multi-criteria analysis of impacts (e.g. in stakeholder workshops), and probably many more. Really depends on the meaning of "social impacts" you have in mind.

Greetings, Stefan

Dear Colleagues,

Fossil-fuel dominated electricity generation in the United States and China has enormous environmental consequences. In 2007, 2.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) were emitted from electricity generation in the United States, about 40 percent of the country’s energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the same year, electricity generation in China produced just over 2 billion metric tons of CO2, accounting for about one-third of its energy-related GHG emissions. Fossil-fuel combustion is also responsible for the emission of other pollutants, such as nitrogen oxide (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2). The production of electricity also puts a strain on water and land resources. In 2000, thermal power plants accounted for nearly half of total withdrawals of water in the United States (USGS, 2005) and nearly 40 percent of water withdrawals for industrialized use in China. Overall, reducing environmental impacts is a major impetus for shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy for electricity generation.

Developing renewable energy technologies that exploit the sun, the wind, and geothermal energy is critical to addressing concerns about climate change and some environmental issues. However, using renewable energy sources will not eliminate all environmental concerns. Although renewable energy sources produce relatively low levels of GHG emissions and conventional air pollution, manufacturing and transporting them will produce some emissions and pollutants. The production of some photovoltaic (PV) cells, for instance, generates toxic substances that may contaminate water resources. Renewable energy installations can also disrupt land use and wildlife habitat, and some technologies consume significant quantities of water.

please, see the attached links:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212609013000241

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our-energy-choices/renewable-energy/environmental-impacts-of.html

Dear Stefan

Sure that I should limit the "social impacts" I want to evaluate it happens that everything is based on the added values that can be generated by energizing a rural community with renewable energy sources, also another aspect that must assess the impact on the inclusion of women in decision making, this aspect is recently assessed in all calls for proposals, the issue of gender inclusion. However I appreciate your insights because they are of much interest in my research, cost-benefit issue.

Yours Truly. Anislei

Dear Hazim.

Admittedly everything you mention, the question I realized is focused on the social impacts of energization renewable energy sources rural communities, happens to be very true everything you mention, on occasion local or national governments undertake projects energizing and this look left it aside, not evaluated the impact that the project in the specified population, energize with PV requires training even minimal operators or end users, this has an impact because if the development of these is unknown communities can bring cost problems brought by the issue of training, for example because in Cuba also is frequent occurrence of hurricanes and this brings high winds that can affect solar and wind installations, but has trained officials for their attention to the effects can be catastrophic in gender issues, a project of this type should consider the impact on rural women, or as it may be included in everything related to their community and even inside your home itself. Evaluate the impact of use and production of renewable technologies is complicated because everything that entails for the environment.

Yours Truly. Anislei

If you are interested in developing countries, look at the work that Practical Action does. Their renewable energy projects bring direct benefit to local people as well as building community cohesion (because local people do most of the work). For example see http://practicalaction.org/micro-hydro-power-3 

Benefits include creating jobs, improving agricultural yields, improving education, helping to retain young people in the community... You could compare before and after measures of productivity or community resilience

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anyone_know_of_tools_to_measure_community_resilience

Thanks for the comment, Nicola.

https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/renewable-energy/public-benefits-of-renewable-power#.WmmyCq5l_X4

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.461.4230&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/a66d9950/IFRI-pub-RodriguezCleanEnergyTech-2012-2-.pdf

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