A Study on the Effect of Residents' Understanding for the Use of Generated Electricity on their Endorsing an Introduction of Small Hydropower Generation

A Cace Study of Ogo Small Village, Kashimo, Nakatsugawa City

Abstract

In this paper, I examined a case in which the administration led the introduction of small hydroelectric generator in an agricultural watercourse maintained and managed by a hamlet. The electricity sales revenues were used throughout the city to advance agriculture and repair agricultural facilities. In order to elucidate the negative and positive reactions of the hamlet’s residents, their level of understanding of how the sales revenue was used, and the outlook for the generator’s maintenance and management, I surveyed all hamlet households via a questionnaire. Interest and method of involvement in the community appears to have played an important role in their levels of understanding, participation in administration explanatory sessions was reflected therein.