Question: I need help with questions #2 & #3 Receiving a Research Assignment Shuang Yu is a recent graduate of Milford University. She has started working
I need help with questions #2 & #3


Receiving a Research Assignment Shuang Yu is a recent graduate of Milford University. She has started working in new business development at Affordable World Energy (AWE), a company that designs affordable products that generate electricity. The primary market for these products is countries with large rural populations that do not have access to electricity. As its next project, AWE is designing small-scale windmills to generate power for individual homes. The company needs to decide on the first market for this product and has narrowed the scope of its search to three countries that all have large populations without electricity: India, Kenya, and Panama. Shuang's assignment is to research which country has the best consumer base, the most suitable wind conditions, and best manufacturing infrastructure to manufacture the windmills locally. As a first step in planning her research, Shuang develops a purpose statement: Purpose: To determine whether India, Kenya, or Panama is the best country in which to produce and sell smallscale wind turbines to provide power to rural homes. She also begins to develop a set of research questions: 1. What criteria should I use to evaluate these countries? How should I weight the criteria? 2. Which country has the best market for small wind turbines? 3. What are the necessary wind conditions for wind turbines? 4. Which countries have the necessary wind conditions? 5. What government regulations may affect the production and sale of wind turbines? 6. How much can the rural population afford to spend on a wind turbine? QUESTION 2: Are there additional questions that Shuang should add to her work plan? For all the questions, what research activities would you plan to answer the questions? Researching Online Sources Shuang begins her research by trying to identify which country has the best market for small-scale wind turbines. She hopes to find this information on the web. But what should she search for? - Search 1: For her first Google search, she uses the terms "rural wind turbine market." This search yields some interesting results, including a market study by the American Wind Energy Association titled "AWEA Small Wind Turbine Global Market Study." 112 Although the research report focuses primarily on the U.S. market, it does include a small section on global markets and, more important, a discussion of the types of regulations that prevent countries from adopting wind power. This helps answer one of her research questions. - Search 2: Shuang then decides to try a second set of terms to approach the search from a different angle. She decides that one way to identify the biggest market is to identify what country has the largest population without electricity. So she uses people "without electricity." Much to her surprise, she finds a spreadsheet published by the International Energy Agency that lists the number of people (in millions) without electricity for countries around the world. 13,14 Shuang finds that Panama has fewer than half a million people without electricity. By contrast, Kenya has about 33 million, and India has about 288 million. By reading the source citations in this report, Shuang also learns about several other agencies that study global energy needs and methods for financing energy development, including the Alliance for Rural Electrification, the International Finance Corporation, and the World Bank. She also identified a book to read: The Hidden Energy Crisis: How Policies Are Failing the World's Poor by Sanchez. QUESTION 3: Identify another research question that Shuang needs to answer and develop some alternative search terms to research this question using a general search engine, a deep web search engine, or an online article database. Which search terms offer the most useful results
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