Renewable Energy Options on Islands in the Andaman Sea. A feasibility study for hybrid renewable energy/diesel systems in two Tsunami impacted communities. Edited by TAW, Chiang Mai 2007. ISBN 9789747093513

The publication ‘Renewable Energy Options on Islands in the Andaman Sea. A feasibility study for hybrid renewable energy/diesel systems in two Tsunami impacted communities’ is a fully fledged project preparation study on how to make the most effective and efficient use of existing energy generation capacities in order to provide two villages located on the islands of Koh Pu and Koh Po with a 24 hour energy supply.

The development of this hybrid energy system concept links to the extended ‘Energy and Climate Change‘ programme that Heinrich B?ll Foundation conducts in Thailand. Their activities within the framework of this programme are directed at promoting renewable energies at the national policy level, against the backdrop of looming climate change and transforming energy policies in the global political economy. In order to succeed on the macro level, promising projects at the community level are of utmost importance to illustrate the feasibility and future economic, social and environmental prospects of sustainable, environmentally friendly technologies.

With this concept we are able to combine securing future development opportunities for the villages concerned and a sustainable mode of energy generation that contributes to paving the way to a new solar era, which should be grasped with both hands, faced as we are with the looming change in our climate, fueled by socially and environmentally detrimental mega energy generation projects.

The study has been implemented with the cooperations from King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi and Palang Thai organization.

The concept presented in this publication is a direct result of their effort to build economic, social and ecological bridges between community development and environmental needs. These two perspectives are sometimes perceived as contradicting one another but do not necessarily do so. The example presented in this study shows that in the mid-term Tsunami recovery process they can merge to contribute to an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable path of development.

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