PE(S)TLE Analysis

Social Factor

Stakeholders

      There are many stakeholders who will benefit from this project. The stakeholders can involve in many ways such as financing, equipment and technology.

• Central Government – With the support from Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency, Ministry of Energy who encourage and give out many policies for sustainable energy. This project will reduce the nation’s emission and also reduce the imported fuel to generate electricity.
• Local Government – With the authority to develop the local area with government’s budget and also permission of them will help the project to be successful.
• Local People – With the mission to provide electricity to every area especially to the area that electricity polls are not reachable so they can have a chance to have education, news and more productivity on agriculture and handcraft.
• NGOs – Source of fund and keep an eye on impact on environment and social.
• Bank – As an investment or giving a credit part.
• Universities and colleges – with the knowhow of the students and professors in the college that can provide the technology for turbine. This is win-win situation between both sides, the students have a reality project and our project can get the cheap and developed equipment.
• VSPP. SPP. IPP. – in this case is us but we are smaller
• The investors or firm who interest in CSR program – With the new corporate strategy trends, CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility is one tool that firms put the money into the projects which give back to the nature, people and environment. Our project is one kind of Social venture program which these firms can finance and use that amount of money to reduce the tax, according to the government’s policy which encourage producing the alternative energy.

Sustainability

      Micro hydro appears to exhibit characteristics that indicate: ‘it is easier to make the profitable social, than to make the social profitable’!  In planning micro hydro investments it appears important to consider means of using the plant to secure livelihoods at an early stage, and to then see how the impact can be spread to marginalized people and to social activities such as lighting in health centres, schools, etc.

      According to The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), for which UNESCO is the lead agency, seeks to integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning, in order to address the social, economic, cultural and environmental problems we face in the 21st century.

      Our Micro Hydro Power Project is a small tool but sustainably impact the people’s life and environment.

Just Distribution

      With the purpose of Distance Learning Foundation for the distance learning via Satellite that want to provide the free education to every Thai students to have the good quality of education fairly. But without the electricity, no TV or communication that can support the distance learning. Moreover the equally education gives a chance to people uphill to have more skills, more knowledge to develop the living to have a better life.

      Though there are many stakeholders involved in this project but nevertheless, the people who finally can access to the electricity is the one who get the benefit, not the money benefit but it’s a better living.

Efficient Allocation

• Negative externalities

              There might be a environmental cost of the project which are not taken into account. For example, some nature will be destroyed, some trees have to been cut down. Also, the life in the river might be suffered from small damn (fish, scallops etc). Also, the flow of the river will be changed, and this could affect people living close to it. The access to electricity might mean that the village people start producing more waste, which is bad for the environment.

• Positive externalities

              Access to electricity might help improving the standard of health care, public education in a village, which will increase the standard of living. The benefits gained from the project might be higher than the cost of running a power plant for the government. And also the electricity can let the villagers to work with their handcraft in the evening. The productivity for the agricultural product which is the main product of the villagers will be increased.