Renewable energy - Assignment

How can a community become both aware and
actively affiliated to renewable energies
through a real life simulated experience

Table of Contents
How can a community become both aware and actively affiliated to renewable energies through
a real life simulated experience........................................................................................................1
TOPIC: How can a community become both aware and actively affiliated to renewable energies
through a real life simulated experience..........................................................................................3
TASK 1: INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................3
Overview and Background of research..................................................................................3
Rationale & Significance of research.....................................................................................5
Scope of research ...................................................................................................................7
Research Aim and objectives.................................................................................................7
TASK 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.................................................................................................8
Different type of technologies that are currently available for renewable energy................8
Impact of renewable energy on community scale................................................................10
Experiences that can be provided to impact the stakeholders..............................................13
TASK 3: FIELD RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY.............................................................15
FIELD RESEARCH......................................................................................................................15
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY...................................................................................................18
Type of investigation ...........................................................................................................19
Research design ...................................................................................................................20
Research approach ...............................................................................................................20
Research philosophy.............................................................................................................21
Data collection methods:- ....................................................................................................21
Sampling...............................................................................................................................23
Ethical Consideration...........................................................................................................24
TASK 4 :DISCUSSION &CONCLUSION..................................................................................24
DATA INTERPRETATION................................................................................................28
DISCUSSION OF SECONDARY DATA...........................................................................45
CONCLUSION......................................................................................................................3
REFLECTION........................................................................................................................4
RECOMMENDATION..........................................................................................................5

Bibliography....................................................................................................................................1
TOPIC: How can a community become both aware and actively affiliated to
renewable energies through a real life simulated experience.
TASK 1: INTRODUCTION
Overview and Background of research
Renewable energy is refer to process of producing energy from the sources which don't
get deplete or replenished throughout the human's life time. The common sources used fro
producing renewable energy are geothermal, biomass, hydro-power and wind. Majority of
renewable energy derived either directly or indirectly through sunlight which can be captured
though the use of solar technologies. The energy generated though wind derived from sun's heat
can be captured with turbines1. In addition to this plants also depends on sun to grow and the
energy stored by these plants get further utilised in the form of bioenergy. Hence, renewable
energy is consider to be the most essential part of environment which contribute toward saving
the resources and re-utilising it for the benefit of society. Australian government also take
initiative toward getting involve in production of renewable energy by developing several plant
in different areas of country. Because of this initiative 2018 was become a remarkable year for
Australian clean energy industry2. This is because around 38 projects get completed throughout
1
Cheng, Jay, ed. Biomass to renewable energy processes. CRC press, 2017.
2 Liang, Xiaodong. "Emerging power quality challenges due to integration of renewable
energy sources." IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 53, no. 2 (2017): 855-866.

the year and more than 2.3 GW new renewable energy capacity entered the market. Rooftop
solar also become able to produce around 1.55 GW new capacity. Now, Australia is getting
around 21% of its total power generation from renewable sources which is more than power
required by every Australian household.
The real life simulated experience can be taken in this regard is the solar plant of
Karratha Airport which is situated in Western Australia and consider as a second largest airport.
The airport has collaborated with multiple stakeholders in order to setup a project which produce
around 1MW solar energy. The Karratha Airport provides a direct link to Pilbara region by
providing multiple daily services from Perth, flights move twice in week to Broome and weekly
services are provided to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne3. Hence it is a very busy airport where
passenger number get increased from 207,458 in 1985-86 to 798,301 marked in year2011-12.
Therefore the demand regarding a reliable and long term energy solution is very essential due to
increase in electricity usage. Apart from this the land covered by airport is around 722 hectares
which provides a huge space to place solar energy4. So with the identification of this opportunity
the company named as Webster Power sought out with technology and construction partners ion
order to start up this solar project by getting its funding through Australian Renewable Energy
Agency (ARENA).
In order to ensure the cost-effective delivery of this solar project it is get connected to the
North West Interconnected system. But during the planning and designing of project there are
some challenges which are faced by Webster Power Company, because NWIS is one of the
smallest network which requires renewable energy system in order to observe specific criteria
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<https://www.energymatters.com.au/commercial-solar/our-customers/karratha-airport/>.
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for maintain overall network stability. In addition to this network operator related with Horizon
Power requires a significant level of energy storage for installing large solar in order to get
smooth output intermittency. The reason behind this requirement is intermittent cloud cover
which may results into huge as well as sudden variation in solar electricity output.
Therefore in order to overcome such issues, a deal has been finalised with Mpower which
provides a generation management system along with cutting-edge cloud predictive
technology(CPT) which is utilised to detect cloud variation. At a situation when clouds get
predicted, CPT slowly minimise the power supply from the solar panel before sun get totally
blocked out by the cloud, this in turn help in reducing the need of energy storage. Hence the
clean power plant constructed by CPS national provided a benefit of high performance i.e. 340
watt solar panels and inverters5. This facility is expected to produce around 1,871 MWh
electricity annually which also help in avoiding the 1,254 tonnes of carbon emission each year6.
This project was of $7.1 million that has been supported by Australian Renewable Energy
Agency (ARENA) through its capital contribution of around $2.3 million. This funding was
granted in order to fulfil the objective of ARENA regarding the reduction of cost and increase in
the use of renewable energy in Australia.
Rationale & Significance of research
The main purpose of this investigation is to enhance awareness on renewable energies
among common people so that it can be used by them in their regular based lives. The research
will also give in depth knowledge about process and methods of renewable energies that are
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6 Nizami, A. S., K. Shahzad, M. Rehan, O. K. M. Ouda, M. Z. Khan, I. M. I. Ismail, T.
Almeelbi, J. M. Basahi, and A. Demirbas. "Developing waste biorefinery in Makkah: a way
forward to convert urban waste into renewable energy." Applied Energy 186 (2017): 189-196.

could be adopted by business organisations and residential communities. Another aid of
conducting this research is provide platform to people and make them realise importance of
renewable energies and its benefits in saving their environment effectively. With the point of
view of researcher, the main purpose of this research is to explore variation options through
which they can use natural resources effective by renewing them. Along with this, the research
will also provide opportunity to researcher to start their career on the same stream as after
conducting this research their knowledge on renewable energies will be high. This will definitely
help them out at the time of entering into career belonging to same field. This investigation will
also improve skills of researcher as for conducting this research they have to indulge into various
activities which will ultimately enhance their existing skills and also make them learn new skills.
These developed skills will contribute in conducting more effective research in future as they are
already having experience on the same thing.
In relation to learner, current investigation will help scholars in scoring good marks in
their particular subject for which they are conducting this research. It will also provide
opportunity to learners to develop their knowledge on renewable energies and how could it be
used in daily life. The learners will also get to know about career growth of this particular stream
as they will get to know scarcity of resources and with the passing time increasing requirement
and trend of concept of renewable energies for fulfilling regular based needs of people. In this
regard, these learners can look for their professional career into the same 7. On the other hand,
current investigation will also play a significant role in development of society as after its
completion common people will going to bulk of information on renewable energies and its
importance in society. Along with this, it can be said that by having in depth knowledge and
7 Zhang, Bin, Bo Wang, and Zhaohua Wang. "Role of renewable energy and non-
renewable energy consumption on EKC: evidence from Pakistan." Journal of Cleaner
Production156 (2017): 855-864.

benefits of renewable energies individuals as well as professional that means business
organisations will easily accept it and adopt it in their residential area as well as commercial
areas.
Scope of research
The scope of current study is very broad as with the passing time individuals are much
aware about natural resource and their effective usage by renewing them effectively. With the
increasing awareness government, people as well as business are accepting the importance of
renewable energies and how effectively it could contribute in satisfying their regular based
needs. The research project will also develop vast scope for businesses already indulge in usage
of natural resources by providing effective tools for renewing them. This research project will
ultimately provide high range of business to the same businesses after its completion other
business will definitely show their interest in buying these tools in order to contribute their share
in creating safe environment and also saving their regular based expenses by using them in their
regular based life. In addition to this, this investigation will also develop job opportunity for
individual in companies who works for renewable of naturals resources. It will also convince
more and more people to work with same companies as it is one among the upcoming trend in
society.
Research Aim and objectives
Research aim
“To demonstrate awareness about renewable energies and its frequential affiliation
towards the community”. A case on Karratha Airport.
Research Objectives

 To evaluate different type of technologies that are currently available for renewable
energy
 To investigate proportion of impact of renewable energy on community scale To identify experiences which influences the stakeholders
Research Questions
 What type of technologies are currently available for renewable energy?
 How much impact can renewable energy have in a community scale?
 What experiences can be provided to impact the stakeholders?
TASK 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
Different type of technologies that are currently available for renewable energy
As per the view point of Matt William, 2015, renewable energy is one of the important
issue in today's world due to rise in cost of fossil fuels and threat of climate change which has
also increased the risk of scarcity of resources that are essential for individual life. This in turn
also has enhanced the demand of alternative energy and trying to affiliating people toward
cleaner as well as more sustainable method of producing electrical power 8. There are number of
methods present in order to produce renewable energy such as solar, biomass, wind, geothermal
and tidal power are usually used to produce renewable energy. These energy are basically termed
as alternative energy because they are considered as an alternative to the fossil fuels such as coal,
oil etc. These all have their own advantages and drawbacks but the main reason behind opting
this in community is that in its execution there is not any threat presented related with pollution
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