Implementation Of Wind Power Project For Empowerment Of Low Income Households

Background

Discuss about the Fundraising in Health and Human Services for Low Income Home.

The proposals are a way of presenting a plan or an idea in front of the target population group. The proposal consists of a proper rationale along with a research question which highlights the problem situation. The review of the different literature base helps in the gathering of sufficient evidences which supports the plan of the proposal. The proposal also provides the reader a discrete idea of the methodology which will be undertaking for doing the project.

The current study focuses upon implementation of an alternate source of energy. In this regard, a wind power project has been taken into consideration. The electricity supply is dependent upon natural gas fired turbines. Due to volatility in the price of natural gas, there is a need to harbour upon alternate sources of energy. The wind energy is almost free and is utilise by low income households in the United States for self generation of energy (Badea, Pro?tean, T?m??il? & Vârtosu, 2017). The project is dependent on a number of partnerships with an aim to escape the fluctuations of the natural gas commodity market.

The project targets the families under Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).  As per reports, there are 291,886 eligible households in Washington State. Inspite of the LIHEAP program 234,586 households were left uncovered (Walunj, Mule  & Tayade, 2018). It had been seen that owing to low income 73% of the Washington based household used hydroelectricity compared to natural gas. The fluctuating prices of electricity made the demand for alternate sources of energy to rise. 

Through the due implementation of the project a number of problems need to be addressed such as:

• 80% of the families eligible for LIHEAP remain unserved
• Sharp rise in the rate of electricity
• Conversion of electric heating to natural gas has become more difficult

Therefore, based upon these problems the “empowerment of the LIHEAP households through provision of alternate sources of energy” has become more important.

The goals, objectives and purpose of the project have been further discussed over here.

Goals:

• Increase utility contributions toward lowering the burden on energy

Objectives:

• To reduce the energy burden of 12,000 target families by 20%
• To develop 12 megawatts of  wind power dedicated to wind energy households

Outcomes:

The   outcome of the project will be to make the LIHEAP households more energy sufficient whereby they have to depend less upon the conventional source of energy for their livelihood. The goal of the wind implementation project will be to make energy available at much lower rates and prices. As suggested by Badea, Popa, Tamasila and Taucean (2016), the electricity charges are expected to rise and fall based upon the commodity market. On the other hand, the non-conventional sources of energy such as wind are free and could be easily tapped through mechanical means (Dütschke, Schneider & Wesche, 2017). The wind mills could be connected to a turbine for the production of energy (Gajda, Stinchcombe, Greenman, Melhuish & Ieropoulos, 2015). The joint project will operate their own wind mill, which will help in the provision of low cost energy at discounted rates (Mendez, 2018).

Goals

In order to relate the activities to the objectives a number of factors need to be taken into consideration such as large amount of technical assistance or expertise is required to run the project. As mentioned by Yang and Dixon (2017), the demand for plants which harbours and produces alternate sources of energy can result in the development of a lot of new job opportunity. For the effective implementation of the project, a large service area is required which needs to comply with the regulatory requirements.

The program could be monitored through active field inspection and data collection which keeps a tab upon the total amount of energy produced. Additionally, regular checking and inspection of the machines could act as a part of effective field evaluation (Khan, Karemore & Kurhade, 2018).

The support for the project has been obtained from various government and federal government institutes. Working in partnership between CSBG/DOE weatherization/LIHEAP network could also help in effective implementation of the project by distribution of prices as well as responsibilities where the expertise of staffs belonging to different departments are harboured for the designing of the project.

The supporting documents should enlist in details the procedures for power installation and the safety measures and precautions which need to be taken into consideration over here. Some of the very important objectives which are part of the project are implementing the safety tools in place as they help in reducing the rate of accidents at the power plant (Van Der Schoor & Scholtens, 2015).

The proposal writing is the very first step in getting a grant sanctioned for conducting an experiment or project.

Some of the factors which make a project effective are:

• A strong or basic rationale highlighting the  importance of the project
• The cost differentiation highlighted through a proper budget  which  could make the implementation effective

Some of the strengths of the proposal are that it taps upon a very vital point which is production of energy from non-conventional and renewable sources of energy as electricity production is mainly dependent upon non-renewable and conventional sources of energy. Additionally, the proposal aims towards the empowerment of the low economy households by planning and presenting and presenting an effective budget.

The weakness of the proposal is that the proposal fails to highlight the loopholes such as the lack of technical expertise contained by the staff. In this respect, training could have been arranged for the staff highlighting the areas where the staffs need support. The proposal fails to provide a detailed idea regarding the allocation of the budget and the particular areas where more allocation of resources are required. Additionally, the field evaluation parameters fail to take into consideration the safety inspection measurements (Pratumnopharat & Leung, 2016). However, it fails to discuss the compliance with the regulatory measures.

A number of recommendations could be suggested to the staff for improvement. Some of which are provision of required amount of training to the staff. In this regard, the proposal could be discussed with the LIHEAP board for understanding the areas where more allocation of fund would have been helpful. The proposal is a way of communicating the sagety readiness of the project. Therefore, the same should have been communicated by way of regulatory guidelines.

The success of the project depends upon the professional qualifications and expertise possessed by the staff. Additionally, the training can qualify the staff for handling and management of different forms of severities and accidents within the power plant (Baloch,., Kaloi & Memon, 2016).  The transparent representation of the budget also helps in maintaining a true and effective relationship with the stakeholders. 

References

Badea, A., Popa, S., Tamasila, M., & Taucean, I. (2016). Competency Training in Wind Power Projects. In Soft Computing Applications (pp. 1077-1085). Springer, Cham.

Badea, A., Pro?tean, G., T?m??il?, M., & Vârtosu, A. (2017, January). Collaborative decision-making on wind power projects based on AHP method. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 163, No. 1, p. 012017). IOP Publishing.

Baloch, M. H., Kaloi, G. S., & Memon, Z. A. (2016). Energy Reports, 125-225.

Dütschke, E., Schneider, U., & Wesche, J. (2017). Knowledge, Use and Effectiveness of Social Acceptance Measures for Wind Projects. Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft, 41(4), 299-310.

Gajda, I., Stinchcombe, A., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Ceramic MFCs with internal cathode producing sufficient power for practical applications. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 40(42), 14627-14631.

Khan, I. A., Karemore, A. S., & Kurhade, R. P. (2018). Design of Hybrid Solar Wind turbine System with CFD Analysis, 64-75.

Mendez, A. H. (2018). Improving Project Performance through Implementation of Agile Methodologies in the Renewable Energy Construction Industry, 57-65.

Pratumnopharat, P., & Leung, P. S. (2016). Windmill Brake State Models Used in Predicting Wind Turbine Performance. Alternative Energy and Shale Gas Encyclopedia, 116-119.

Van Der Schoor, T., & Scholtens, B. (2015). Power to the people: Local community initiatives and the transition to sustainable energy. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 43, 666-675.

Walunj, V., Mule, T., & Tayade, P. (2018). Literature Survey on Intelligent Energy Metering System to Transfer Solar Power to DISCOMs, 45-66.

Yang, M., & Dixon, R. K. (2017). Agriculture sector modernization and renewable energy development. In Geothermal, Wind and Solar Energy Applications in Agriculture and Aquaculture (pp. 33-50). CRC Press.

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