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Author San Cristóbal Mateo, José Ramón

Title Multi criteria analysis in the renewable energy industry / by José Ramón San Cristóbal Mateo
Published London ; New York : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 105 pages)
Series Green energy and technology, 1865-3529
Green energy and technology.
Contents 1. The Renewable Energy industry and the need for a Multi-criteria analysis -- 2. Multi-criteria Analysis -- 3. AHP -- 4. Weighted Sum Method and Weighted Product Method -- 5. PROMETHEE -- 6. ELECTRE -- 7. TOPSIS -- 8. VIKOR -- 9. A Multi-criteria Data Envelopment Analysis -- 10. Multi Attribute Utility theory -- 11. Fuzzy PROMETHEE -- 12. FAHP -- 13. The Shapley value
Summary Decision makers in the Renewable Energy sector face an increasingly complex social, economic, technological, and environmental scenario in their decision process. Different groups of decision-makers become involved in the process, each group bringing along different criteria therefore, policy formulation for fossil fuel substitution by Renewable Energies must be addressed in a multi-criteria context. Multi Criteria Analysis in the Renewable Energy Industry is a direct response to the increasing interest in the Renewable Energy industry which can be seen as an important remedy to many environmental problems that the world faces today. The multiplicity of criteria and the increasingly complex social, economic, technological, and environmental scenario makes multi-criteria analysis a valuable tool in the decision-making process for fossil fuel substitution. The detailed chapters explore the use of the Multi-criteria decision-making methods and how they provide valuable assistance in reaching equitable and acceptable solutions in the selection of renewable energy projects. Common multi-criteria decision-making methods including Analytical Hierarchy Process, PROMETHEE, ELECTRE, TOPSIS and VIKOR are explored in detail with an application case of each method included at the end of each chapter. As such, Multi Criteria Analysis in the Renewable Energy Industry is an ideal resource for those groups of individuals, institutions and administration such as local authorities, academic institutions, environmental groups, and governments that, through their priorities and evaluation systems, have interests at stake and directly or indirectly influence the decision-making process
Analysis Engineering
Renewable energy sources
Renewable and Green Energy
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Operations Research, Management Science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Energy industries -- Decision making
Multiple criteria decision making.
Renewable energy sources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Energy.
SCIENCE -- Energy.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- General.
Ingénierie.
Multiple criteria decision making
Renewable energy sources
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781447123460
1447123468
144712345X
9781447123453