Barriers to Energy Saving for Public Middle Schools in Bangkok: From School Management Perspective

Barriers to Energy Saving for Public Middle Schools in Bangkok: From School Management Perspective

The Government sector is one of the main energy consuming sectors in Thailand which consumed 2,064 GWh of total consumption in 2012. Due to Thailand need to import energy, so Government of Thailand announced to all government agencies to reduce energy consumption by 10%. Public school is one of government agencies, not only to reduce their consumption but also have responsibility to transfer knowledge and create the behavior of energy saving for students. However, it is not simple to fulfill this task due to many obstacles, called “Barriers”. The purpose of this paper is to identified the barriers which prevented public schools from energy saving and how to overcome those barriers, by interviewing with school managements as research method. The results highlight the government policies and values are the main barriers of energy saving in schools and also suggested various ideas of how to overcome those barriers in each level.
International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy-Cover
  • Başlangıç: 2011
  • Yayıncı: İlhan ÖZTÜRK
Sayıdaki Diğer Makaleler

Uncertainty of Oil Proved Reserves and Economic Growth in Iran

Elaheh Asadi Mehmandosti, Fatemeh Bazzazan, Mir Hossein Mousavi

Economic Problems of Exploring Hydrocarbons in Russian Northern Provinces in the Context of International Interests

Lyubov Vasilievna LARCHENKO, Roman Aleksandrovich KOLESNİKOV, Galina Pavlovna TUMANOVA, Valeriy Aleksandrovich KİBENKO

Elasticity of Agricultural Prices in Russia: An Empirical Study of Energy and Monetary Channels

Dmitry BURAKOV

Will be there New CO2 Emitters in the Future? Evidence of Long-run Panel Co-integration for N-11 Countries

Mohammad Nasre ESFAHANİ, Ehsan RASOULİNEZHAD

Assessment of the Required Changes of Russian Ecological Taxes

Tatiana Olegovna TAGAEVA, Alexander Olegovich BARANOV, Vadim Manavirovich GİLMUNDİNOV

Economic Evaluation of Nigerian Marginal Oil and Gas Field using Financial Simulation Analysis

Yusuf Opeyemi AKİNWALE, John-felix Kayode AKİNBAMİ

The Joint Effects of Oil Price Volatility and Environmental Risks on Non-Performing Loans: Evidence from Panel Data of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

İsmail Tijjani IDRİS, Sabri NAYAN

Demand for Natural Gas in Food and Beverage Industries of Iran

Lotfali AGHELİ

Trade-off Curves and Elasticity Analysis in Multi Fuel Options System and Combined Problem

Ali NAZEMİ, Seyed Farid GHADERİ, Shadi Khalil MOGHADAM, Anahita FARSAEİ

Oil Price and Exchange Rates: A Wavelet Analysis for Organisation of Oil Exporting Countries Members

Basheer H. M. Altarturi, Ahmad Alrazni Alshammri, Tuan Muhd Taufik Tuan HUSSİN, Buerhan SAİTİ