2012-03-26
Prioritizing sustainable electricity production technologies: MCDM approach
Economic, technological, social, and political developments stressed the need for shifts in energy-mix. Therefore it is important to provide a rationale for sustainable decision making in energy policy. The aim of this paper is to develop the multi-criteria decision support framework for choosing the most sustainable electricity production technologies. Given selection of sustainable energy sources involves many conflicting criteria, multi-criteria decision methods MULTIMOORA and TOPSIS were employed for the analysis. The indicator system covering different approaches of sustainability was established. The analysis proved that the future energy policy should be oriented towards the sustainable energy technologies, namely water and solar thermal ones. It is the proposed multi-criteria assessment framework that can constitute a basis for further sub-regional optimization of sustainable energy policy.
Keywords: Electricity production; Sustainable energy; Multi-criteria decision making.
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Streimikiene, D.; Balezentis, T.; Krisciukaitiene, I.; Balezentis, A. Prioritizing sustainable electricity production technologies: MCDM approach // Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, No16 (5) (2012), p. 3302-3311. ISSN 1364-0321. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2012.02.067. (Web of Science, SciVerse ScienceDirect, SCOPUS).
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