Techno-Economic Analysis of Solar Power Plant Project in Binh Thuan, Vietnam

Abstract:

This paper aims to determine the important parameters of the solar power plant project located in Binh Thuan such as energy production, the number of solar panels, the number of the inverters and economic analysis. In this study, the solar power plant project with 1MW capacity installed and the location has the solar radiation from 1800 kWh/m 2 to 1900 kWh/m 2 per year is used to analyze. The PVSyst software was used to determine the energy production, the number of inverters, and the number of the solar panels. Furthermore, an economic model was proposed and used to identify the Net Present Value (NPV) with the discount rate 8% and 10%, Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and payback years. From the results, the energy produced was around 1631MW per year, and NPV with discount rate 8% were beneficial, and LCOE was 21 cents USD per kWh. In addition, with the price to sell of electricity production to EVN was 9.35 cents, the Payback years was within in the range 9-12 years.

link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8595597

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Digital Pedagogy

In recent year, We have heard a lot about education 4.0 so how to implement the education model 4.0. One of the new pedagogy is digital pedagogy. After discussing digital pedagogy we should be understood the Effectiveness of teaching and learning methods (Fig 1)

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5065908/

We must be thinking about this model and how to apply it to our class. Furthermore, the teacher creates a digital environment and posts the document, video or/and quizz. The student can study anywhere it makes the student free, it called flexible learning. In other hands, the teacher organizes dialog, through classroom dialog students understand each other better and learn from each other.

From the main point in this topic, digital pedagogy impact on teaching and learning. The teacher must study about technology and change teaching method, the student change method learning from negative to positive and free. I call Flexible teaching and learning

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First week for education 4.0 project in Finland

Education 4.0 is an education that meets the human resource requirements of Industry 4.0, where human and technology are aligned to enable new possibilities [1].  So what is the pedagogy should be applied to solve this problem.

During one week in Hank University, my teacher (Irma, Sanna, Catja) gave me something new. Firstly, The important thing was the teacher understanding what was in mind of the student. I was amazed by the method Sana was applying, each person selects a picture that they like and shared their feelings about that picture. Through the short dialog, the lecture understands the feeling of student and change the method to approach the student. Secondly, I have learned the tool to support for teaching such as Moodle, Kahoot, Zoom.  Although I have applied these tools in teaching at LHU but I still learn many new things.  Finally, I visited another campus of Hamk university and I amazed about the curriculum-based module and the teacher will share with us next week. 

Fig 1. The Vietnamese student in Hamk University

I and my team have a good time in Finland. The weather and food are the difference in Vietnam but it gives me a new experience.  My first impression about the environment in Finland was fresh air and lots of trees. We have a good trip on the weekend to Helsinki and Tallinn. It is nice and romantic.

Fig 2. Tallinn old town

Fig 3. Hamk University

[1]Anealka Aziz Hussin,.Education 4.0 Made Simple: Ideas For Teaching, International Journal of Education & Literacy Studies.

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Building eco system

Education 4.0 is becoming a trend to meet industry 4.0. Currently, there are many universities have been built the model towards education 4.0. In Hamk university has the model it called cschool that means "can do" school. It developed for Business faculty only. Based on this model I revised it for engineering faculty as Fig 1.

                                         Fig.1 The revision model-based cSchool model

Furthermore, education 4.0 needs teachers to change their teaching methods from traditional to student-centered. The teacher acquires new teaching technology. A big challenge is how to change the traditional teacher. Based on the research of Irma Kunnary I have been developed the model to motivate the traditional teacher to change their teaching method (Fig 2).

                       Fig 2. The changing traditional teacher model 

From this model, the support teacher developer team help the teacher improve their skill including the technology, teaching method skill. The teacher will be working in collaboration, interaction environment such as online sharing, discussion, dialogue. In this model, the teachers are motivated by giving them autonomy and value.

From two model as Fig 1 and Fig 2. I think I can do something new with my team when I back to our university.

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Introduction

Welcome to my blog!

My name is Le Phuong Truong. I am working for Lac Hong University as Head of quality assurance. I graduated master's degree in field electrical engineering in 2010 at southern Taiwan university science and technology and PhD degree in 2016 at Dayeh University, Taiwan. My research based on renewable energy including solar energy, wind energy and education. My publications are online in google scholar.

In the year 2016 to present, I join the BUILT -IT projects, it public-private ecosystem is designed to produce graduates who can solve problem and engineer solution and value for Vietnam's social and economic development (https://builditvietnam.org/). Furthermore, in the year 2018, I have joined the EMVITET Project (Empowering Vietnamese VET teacher for transformation Toward Education 4.0 ) as a core team. I hope I and my team can transfer our knowledge of education 4.0 to LHU's teacher.

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