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In this lesson, you will be pulling together all the elements of the course from the past months and composing the first draft of your solar project proposal. The drafts will then go through the peer-review process. This week you will spend some time doing background search and developing your ideas, and also you will have a chance to learn from others by reviewing their work. Comments from your reviewer may provide an additional angle to the problem you are solving and expose some deficiencies that you may not notice. Even if you feel confident in your development, constructive critique will not make it better!
Your proposal will convey the full spectrum of skills that you have been developing to better accomplish the goal of solar design: to maximize solar utility for your client and stakeholders in their specific locale. We have broken down the course into three main blocks, which I will review here:
- Engineering/Technological: resource assessment, shading analysis, technology assessment, technology performance simulation
- Economic/Financial: financial constraints, financial simulations, elasticity of demand, comparative analysis, reducing risk
- Risk Management: broader impacts, policy constraints, stakeholder analysis, sustainability, and ecosystems services assessment
Be sure that your pre-proposal is balanced and touches upon all of the above areas.
The formal lesson content will be minimial this week to let you focus on the project related tasks.