Development of Energy Security Management for Rural Community

Energy plays an important role in the national security of any given country as a fuel to empower the economic sector. Access to cheap energy has become essential to the functioning of modern economies. Long term measures to increase energy security on reducing dependence on any one source of imported energy should be implemented. Therefore, biogas, biodiesel and solar cell are the alternative energy for Thai people since Thailand is agricultural country and locates in tropical zone. If Thai agricultural people bring theses energy to practice in their community, they will receive both individual benefit and environmental conservation. However, these are not accepted widely overall the country, therefore, it needs to educate them by adopting the environmental education process. The objective was to develop the energy security management for rural community through environmental education process. The mixed method research was employed to collect data. The qualitative research with focus group discussion and participatory action research through Participatory-Appreciation-Influence-Control (PAIC) were implemented. Particularly, PAIC can be accounted as an environmental education process. The sample group was selected by purposive sampling method. The 30 participants of community leaders were used as sample group based on the commitment to share knowledge, experiences and willingness to devote time for the whole process of training and to educate other peoples in the community after received the training. The finding revealed that after training, the mean scores of the participants in terms of knowledge, understanding, and attitude change were higher than before training with statistically significant respectively (p<.001, p<.001 and p<.001. Three Dimension Evaluations (TDE) were congruent among, Self-evaluation, Friend-evaluation, and Facilitator-evaluation (p>.05). They proposed two projects for implementation that were biogas development project and biodiesel development project for their community and the budgets were supported by community peoples and their Municipality. Key words: Development; Energy Security Management; Rural Community Résumé L'énergie joue un r le important dans la sécurité nationale d'un pays donné comme le combustible pour l’habiliter le secteur économique. L'accès à l'énergie bon marché est devenu essentiel au bon fonctionnement des économies modernes. Des mesures à long terme pour accro tre la sécurité énergétique sur la réduction de la dépendance à une source unique d'énergie importée devrait être mis en oeuvre. Par conséquent,