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Scrap Woods for Wealth


Provincial Electricity Authority



 
PEA had reused and rebuilt scrap woods in each area more than 20 tons at present. Moreover, PEA has established new career opportunities in the communities by brainstorming and creating new products from scrap woods. This can generate income to communities by selling recycled scrap woods in proper product.

INTRODUCTION

Tree branches near power line can affect the PEA distribution system or cause discontinue electricity delivery process. One of PEA duties for protecting this is to always check branches along distribution system and cut them down before they make problem. This causes lots of scrap wood therefore, PEA finds the opportunity to develop and turn waste into wealth.

Tree branches which are trimmed, and cut down on ground unattended make PEA the idea to transform and create new products on CSR project called “Scrap Woods for Wealth” The goal of this project is to turn waste into wealth, instead of discarding them. PEA has researched and designed solutions that turn scrap woods to be beneficial and valueadded products. Then, PPEA educated all know how-to the people in the local communities, so they can apply these know ledge in their daily life.

FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGY

The main mission of “Scrap Woods for Wealth” is to deliver electricity to all consumers with high quality, stability, continuity, and safety. As the mention above, the trees cause the trouble in providing stable electricity transmission, the trees are then trimmed, and scrap wood are used in the project which equally benefited the community.

Data analysis on surveys and interviews have been collected from the community to study the problems and solutions for scrap woods for wealth. PEA has engaged with local community to make understanding and manage people’s perspectives to plan the direction together. PEA educates people in the community to transform and create value from scrap wood such as making charcoal, fertilizer, and furniture, etc. with a proper process and high quality. PEA also developed a manual and courses to be provided to local community by teaching the process and hands on experiences.

ACHIEVEMENT AND IMPACT

PEA had reused and rebuilt scrap woods in each area more than 20 tons at present. Moreover, PEA has established new career opportunities in the communities by brainstorming and creating new products from scrap woods. This can generate income to communities by selling recycled scrap woods in proper product. In fact, this also helps PEA’s distribution system to avoid the disturbance from growing scrap woods. Through this project, PEA has created connections with the communities as they are able to help monitor uncultivated of wood growth that might disturb the PEA distribution system. That makes the communities understands and looks after power line that may cause power outages by trimming the tree as this will help to deliver electricity to consumers with high quality, stability and safety.

FUTURE DIRECTION

PEA plans to scale up this project and cover all communities in Thailand by arranging courses to educate and provide the project manually. According to developing the scrap wood to a proper product can generate income for all communities, PEA plans to level-up products and quality by working with the designer to develop the modern product. Moreover, PEA plans to expand a variety of product lines, work on marketing plans, coordinate with government departments and private sectors to launch selling channels. This will include tradeshow, exhibition, and distribution channels additionally including an online marketplace to expand more opportunities to promote and reach the product to more people.
Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA)’s core business is to produce, procure, deliver, distribute, and provide electricity services for the public, businesses, and industries to meet customers’ needs and to create customers’ satisfaction in quality and services. In parallel with core business, PEA also takes care of environment and quality of customer life by continuously developing corporate social responsibility project.