A STEEP-cum-SWOT approach for maintenance strategy evaluation for an off-grid PV-powered street lighting system

Ighravwe, Desmond Eseoghene; Babatunde, Moses Olubayo; Denwigwe, Iheanacho Henry; Aikhuele, Daniel O.

doi:10.1080/20421338.2019.1701775

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“…Currently, the SWOT analysis is frequently used in different areas, such as education, industry, agriculture, and marketing and management, where it was initially developed [63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75]. The main attraction of such a tool is the easiness of use: in fact, the representation allows the user to rapidly understand what was considered in the analysis and how.…”

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Renewable Energy Community: Opportunities and Threats towards Green Transition

Sarcina,

Canesi

2023

Sustainability

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The European Union faces a complex economic conjunction where different factors affect and reduce the number of feasible and sustainable projects according to the legislation and the available resources. In this context, one of the available solutions to the current energy crisis could be the implementation of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) to support the European dual transition targets. The idea of an energy community is still being defined in the literature and from a legislative perspective. The increasing REC dimension and numerosity demand in-depth studies on opportunities and threats in a still unexplored market. To clarify the Italian and European state of the art of these communities, this study in the first section addresses the socioeconomic and policy conditions needed for the foundation and development of energy communities by analyzing the in-force legislation. The analysis of the current regulation has been conducted to verify how RECs affect local communities and their degrees of freedom and action in regions. The second part of the study aimed to define threats and opportunities in creating new professional profiles and local job opportunities in this new thriving market. In this study, we collected interviews and surveys with market operators, both on the service providers’ side (ESCo) and the communities’ side (promoters), to identify conflicts and advantages associated with establishing communities. The participants were initially selected through publicly available lists, and after verifying the contact correctness, they were contacted by email or phone. The results of the interviews have been processed into a SWOT analysis, showing how national policies currently need to catch up in implementing this efficiency tool and how the restricted number and the variety of the existing communities increase the difficulty in creating cohesive and universal guidelines. Finally, local markets can still not correctly manage this innovative tool’s uncertainty despite being interested in it.

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Section: Swot Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Renewable Energy Community: Opportunities and Threats towards Green Transition

Sarcina,

Canesi

2023

Sustainability

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“…The open circuit voltage, short circuit current and power point electrical data should be measured with a reliable and safe instrument on strings and individual solar panels, and compare the results with the manufacturers datasheet. [24] Visual inspection of the solar panel surface can show some anomalies, like cracks, air bubbles or burned out cells, but a thermal camera can give gives a much more detailed result. [25]…”

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The Practice of Troubleshooting and Maintenance in a Small-scale Off-grid Industrial Environment

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Dimen

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE 21st World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI)

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“…Step 3: The average decision matrix (X ) is constructed using equation (33), whereX ij represents the average evaluation of ith maintenance strategy on jth criterion.…”

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“…Table 16 gives the evaluations made by the three experts. The average decision matrix (X ) was computed using equation (33) and it is presented in Table 17.…”

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A fuzzy DEMATEL-ANP-VIKOR analytical model for maintenance strategy selection of safety critical assets

Arjomandi

Dinmohammadi

Mosallanezhad

et al. 2021

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

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In most industries, such as aerospace, manufacturing, transport and energy sectors, maintenance plays a vital role in improving the performance of safety critical equipment and facilities. It also helps industries achieve the largest possible efficiency, ensure workplace and environmental safety, and reduce unnecessary breakdowns and costs. Therefore, it is crucial for industries to adopt an optimal maintenance strategy for their critical systems and infrastructure. In this study, we aim to propose a novel analytical multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology for selecting the most suitable maintenance strategy in distillation units of oil refinery plants. The alternative maintenance strategies include run-to-failure (RTF), preventive maintenance (PM), condition-based maintenance (CBM), and reliability centered maintenance (RCM), which are evaluated with respect to 12 sub-criteria in three categories of economical, safety, and sustainability issues. The MCDM methodology consists of a DEMATEL-based analytic network process (ANP) method to determine the importance weights of decision criteria and a VIKOR method to rank the maintenance strategies. Also, interval type-2 fuzzy sets are used to capture uncertainty in experts’ individual judgments. Finally, a real case study is provided to show the applicability of the proposed methodology to an oil refinery plant. The results show that, thanks to advances in degradation modeling, sensor technology, and data analytics platforms, the RCM and CBM are the superior maintenance strategy for crude oil distillation systems.

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A STEEP-cum-SWOT approach for maintenance strategy evaluation for an off-grid PV-powered street lighting system

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Renewable Energy Community: Opportunities and Threats towards Green Transition

Renewable Energy Community: Opportunities and Threats towards Green Transition

The Practice of Troubleshooting and Maintenance in a Small-scale Off-grid Industrial Environment

A fuzzy DEMATEL-ANP-VIKOR analytical model for maintenance strategy selection of safety critical assets

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