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semester: The module is offered once a year. The preparation seminar takes place during the second semester, the International Class takes place in the semester break at the end of the second semester. Mo [...] practical exercise takes place abroad, preferably in a rural community development situation. The module follows the typical phases of the project based learning approach. The first two steps take place in the [...] their research sites, applying different social and technical research methods. This phase usually takes two weeks. Within another two weeks the students have to analyse the information, draw conclusion
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were assumed while the transformer efficiency taken as 98%. The annual mean flow rate of 0.255m3/s was taken as the design flow rate. Hands-off flow was taken as Qn90 corresponding to 0.04m3/s. Three other [...] given as of 6,160 £ /kW. The intake structure cost was taken as £1,007/kW from a past project quotation in the Highlands and pipeline cost taken from online price list11. The turbine, generator and controller [...] ............................................................ 91 Table 41. Summary of assumptions taken for the economic model .................................................... 93 Table 42. Loch Meadaidh:
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employed to achieve the objective set out for this study included several stages. The initial step taken was to carry out a survey among the households under jurisdiction of the West Harris Trust. By use [...] regulations, demand profile, turbine effi- ciency, generator efficiency, and penstock efficiency were taken into consideration. The steps undertaken to evaluate the wind potential of the proposed sites in West [...] analysed, thus determining a range of FIT’s for which the projects are viable. Positive NPVs are taken as an indication of profitability for each project. Downward trend of wind FIT scheme is presented
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project Table 5.4: Site Conditions for Airde Mor Table 5.5: Points from where photographs have been taken Table 5.6 Grants and Loans by HICEC Table 5.7: Total Investment Costs Table 5.8: Financing Structure [...] the road. During the survey the wind data available for the site, wind speeds and roses had to be taken from the European Wind atlas due to the absence of long-term data for the site. Thus the energy yield [...] at 6.4% per year and project life is set at 20 years. 5. Subsidy for the proposed hydro scheme is taken as 50% of the capital investment for the community projects and 30% of the capital investment for
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sustainable yield of forest in Sleat was taken from the Renewable Energy Study of Sleat23. The embodied energy for the fuel wood, wood chip and the wind turbine were taken from the GEMIS 4.2 software developed [...] has already been captured it will be double counting if eating out of the local residents is also taken into account. In order not to exaggerate human demand on nature, it is important to be more than careful [...] categories of material bought by residents are shown in Annex 4. The average weight of each material was taken from Furniture Reuse Network26. The percentages of the material make up are assumed in order to calculate
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tabulated in Table 2.1below. Table 2.1: Questionnaire preparation key take-aways Source: Author based on project planning exercise Key Take-away Description Complexity of the sentences A fairly designed qu [...] unit cost with forced detailed take-off L: -5% to -10% H: +5% to + 15% Class 1 65% to 100% Check estimate or prebid/tender, change order Detailed unit cost with detailed take- off L: -3% to -5% H: +3% to [...] of electricity is low, the investment takes a longer time to be recovered whereas when the cost of electricity purchased from the grid is high, the investment takes a short period of time to be recovered
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red diesel. The average price of fuel is taken from the fuel stations in Eday, Rousay and Kirkwall. In addition to that, the average price of red diesel is taken from Scottish Fuel when it is supplied in [...] s, fuel consumption, energy demand and CO2 emissions of the ferry are taken from part 3.1.1.2, those of cars and busses are taken from part 3.1.1.4 and 3.1.1.5 Specific assumptions for Rousay: • Average [...] Out of the samples taken in Rousay, 100% of the farmers are involved only in livestock whereas in Eday 10 of the 12 farmers are involved only in livestock. Out of the sample taken 67% of the vehicles
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Kelman, Operations Manager of SSE to get technical information on the local grid and its ability to take supply from proposed wind power project; - Aaron Priest of Viking Wind farm project and David Thomson [...] obtained most of the data on heat consumption from the questionnaires for 2006, this year has been taken as the base year. An increase of 10% on the annual HDD has been distributed equally over the months [...] consuming 224 MWh and 90MWh respectively. Shetland Norse Factory is the largest commercial consumer and takes about 53%14 of the total commercial consumption. 14 Calculation from result of SESAM Survey Part
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such skills to motivate a few people to take up such trainings. Having local personnel to carry out these works will greatly reduce cost and encourage more up take. In addition to retrofitting and other [...] the linear model can be observed in the left side of the image where the flow is take-make-dump, and the energy is taken from finite resources. On the right side there is a representation of the circular [...] to the ECMs and O&Ms on your preliminary list. o Take pictures as you walk through the building and wrote down problems or additional opportunities. o Take basic measurements of light levels, temperature
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The Jura Development Trust (JDT), with the support of Community Energy Scotland (CES) has already taken the initiative to investigate the framework and procedures for development according to the National [...] planning permission and limited grid access which may reduce the potential output of the project or may take a long time to obtain. There are a large number of distributed/embedded generators on the grid in [...] Due to the variability of wind conditions over a longer period of time, a one year data cannot be taken as a representative wind data for the site. It was thus necessary to generate long term data for Ardlussa