Organizations working towards standardization have defined universal standards for Best Management Practices (BMPs) for renewable energy (RE) projects.
However, these universal standards are better suited to large-scale than small-scale projects such as community renewable energy (CRE) projects.
Methods used by CRE projects to achieve BMP status remain to be determined. This paper aims to present various aspects of BMPs for small-scale CRE projects by emphasizing practices that are unrestricted, simple, and adaptable to the surrounding environment, and that will eventually lead to sustainability in the community.
The case study involves RE projects at the ‘Sathya Sai School Thailand,’ an education-based com-munity which has a community-like organizational management.