TY - JOUR
T1 - Decision aid with the MCDA-RES software: A wind-hydro energy application for an Island of the Aegean, Greece
AU - Polatidis, H.
AU - Haralambopoulos, D. A.
AU - Bruinsma, F.
AU - Vreeker, R.
AU - Munda, G.
PY - 2009/10/1
Y1 - 2009/10/1
N2 - Energy planning refers to providing sufficient power to human societies while at the same time underlies resource, economic environmental, social and technological constraints. The complexity of the task renders multi-criteria decision analysis techniques a useful tool in the decision process. Multi-criteria decision analysis techniques offer a transparent way of elaborating on decision problems, which include many criteria and different decision-makers. This article presents the MCDA-RES multi-criteria decision-analysis software and its application in a case-study regarding a wind-hydro hybrid energy project for an island in Greece where the performance of alternatives on a set of different criteria and the preference of the decision-makers is assessed. The analysis showed that no group consensus could be directly established; still some alternatives performed better than others and a way towards a compromise solution could be revealed.
AB - Energy planning refers to providing sufficient power to human societies while at the same time underlies resource, economic environmental, social and technological constraints. The complexity of the task renders multi-criteria decision analysis techniques a useful tool in the decision process. Multi-criteria decision analysis techniques offer a transparent way of elaborating on decision problems, which include many criteria and different decision-makers. This article presents the MCDA-RES multi-criteria decision-analysis software and its application in a case-study regarding a wind-hydro hybrid energy project for an island in Greece where the performance of alternatives on a set of different criteria and the preference of the decision-makers is assessed. The analysis showed that no group consensus could be directly established; still some alternatives performed better than others and a way towards a compromise solution could be revealed.
KW - MCDA-RES web-based software
KW - Multi-criteria decision analysis
KW - Wind-hydro project
U2 - 10.1080/15567240701759826
DO - 10.1080/15567240701759826
M3 - Article
SN - 1556-7249
VL - 4
SP - 407
EP - 419
JO - Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy
JF - Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy
ER -