An efficient uncertainty representation for the design of sustainable energy generation systems

Medina-González, Sergio; Espuña, Antonio; Puigjaner, Luís

doi:10.1016/j.cherd.2017.11.044

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“…(iii) Energy Infrastructure. 14.5% of the papers (12 articles in total) deal with the sustainability of different topics related to energy infrastructure, such as the selection of the most sustainable energy production system [64][65][66][67][68][69][70], the selection of the optimal location of energy production plants [71,72], and the sustainability performance evaluation of different designs of wind turbines and towers [73][74][75]. (iv) Hydraulic Infrastructure.…”

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A Review of Multicriteria Assessment Techniques Applied to Sustainable Infrastructure Design

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2019

Advances in Civil Engineering

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Given the great impacts associated with the construction and maintenance of infrastructures in both the environmental, the economic and the social dimensions, a sustainable approach to their design appears essential to ease the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. Multicriteria decision-making methods are usually applied to address the complex and often conflicting criteria that characterise sustainability. The present study aims to review the current state of the art regarding the application of such techniques in the sustainability assessment of infrastructures, analysing as well the sustainability impacts and criteria included in the assessments. The Analytic Hierarchy Process is the most frequently used weighting technique. Simple Additive Weighting has turned out to be the most applied decision-making method to assess the weighted criteria. Although a life cycle assessment approach is recurrently used to evaluate sustainability, standardised concepts, such as cost discounting, or presentation of the assumed functional unit or system boundaries, as required by ISO 14040, are still only marginally used. Additionally, a need for further research in the inclusion of fuzziness in the handling of linguistic variables is identified.

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A Review of Multicriteria Assessment Techniques Applied to Sustainable Infrastructure Design

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2019

Advances in Civil Engineering

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“…In sustainability problem class articles, the goal has always been to select a better scenario, planning, or strategy to increase sustainability. The ELECTRE method was used due to the need for a method that systematically selects a unique and robust solution [44,148].…”

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Renewable Energy Problems: Exploring the Methods to Support the Decision-Making Process

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In the current scenario of increasing energy demand and encouraging sustainable development in countries, the energy sector’s planning has become more complex, involving multiple factors, such as technical, economic, environmental, social, and political. The decision process plays a vital role in structuring and evaluating complex decision situations related to the sector, considering various criteria and objectives, encouraging adopting policies to promote energy efficiency actions by increasing research on renewable energy sources and strategic energy decisions. The high number of multi-criteria decision support methods (MCDM) available and their efficiency in solving highly complex problems results in an impasse with their selection and application in specific decision situations. Thus, the scientific community requires methodological approaches that help the decision-maker select the method consistent with his problem. Accordingly, this paper conducts a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of renewable energy problems associated with MCDM methods based on a final set of 163 articles. We identified five categories of problems solved by MCDM techniques: Source selection, location, sustainability, project performance, and technological performance. We separate the MCDM process into five evaluation steps (alternative selection, criteria selection, criteria weighting, evaluation of alternatives, and post-assessment analyzes), and we extract the methods used in each MCDM step from papers. This paper’s main contribution is identifying the most common MCDM methods in the renewable energy area and the energy problem they solve. Accordingly, this manuscript helps energy decision-makers, entrepreneurs, investors, and policy-makers to improve their ability to choose the proper MCDM methods to solve energy problems.

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“…They are also employed in decisionmaking processes related to technology selection (materials, components, etc.) [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]. To assess the level of renewable energy development, researchers often use synthetic measures based on different sets of indicators) and methods such as TOPSIS, PCA, etc.…”

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The Problem of Non-Typical Objects in the Multidimensional Comparative Analysis of the Level of Renewable Energy Development

2021

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The development of energy from renewable sources is one of the most important aspects of today’s energy industry. The level of this development (production of green energy) is determined by the use of a variety of methods, e.g., the methods of multicriteria and multivariate analysis. The effectiveness of these methods is affected by many factors, and one of them is the appearance of non-typical objects (outliers). This paper investigates the effectiveness of selected methods (TOPSIS, VIKOR, VMCM) in terms of computational robustness to outlier objects. The most effective method in this respect (VMCM) is then applied to study the level of development of renewable energy sources in European countries. The presented research provides the opportunity to carry out a dynamic analysis (for selected base years) of the level of energy generation from diverse renewable sources in reference to the adopted patterns and anti-patterns (European countries). The obtained results are discussed, thus confirming the effectiveness of the proposed methodological approach.

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An efficient uncertainty representation for the design of sustainable energy generation systems

Cited by 14 publications

References 51 publications

A Review of Multicriteria Assessment Techniques Applied to Sustainable Infrastructure Design

A Review of Multicriteria Assessment Techniques Applied to Sustainable Infrastructure Design

Renewable Energy Problems: Exploring the Methods to Support the Decision-Making Process

The Problem of Non-Typical Objects in the Multidimensional Comparative Analysis of the Level of Renewable Energy Development

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