Analysis of the Criteria Used to Evaluate Renewable Energy Sources in Turkey With Fuzzy SWARA

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the criteria used in the evaluation of renewable energy resources with the extremely high strategic importance that Turkey has and to find their degree of importance. For this purpose, an application has been made to find which criteria come to the fore and the weights of these criteria in order to evaluate Turkey's renewable energy resources. Five main criteria (technical, economic, environmental, social, and political) and a total of 22 sub-criteria related to these criteria were included in the scope of the study. Fuzzy SWARA method, one of the multi-criteria decision-making methods, has been used in the study. According to the results of the analysis, the most important criterion among the main criteria was “environmental criteria.” As a result, it has shown the importance of the priority criteria for Turkey and environmental evaluation criteria, which are important for the common future of humanity in parallel with the results in the world.

A new decision making method based on Z-decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory and ordered weighted average and its application in renewable energy source investment

“…To determine the relationships among criteria in the decision-making of RES investment, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) (Ulewicz et al, 2021;Karatop et al, 2021;Sedghiyan et al, 2021), stepwise weight assessment ratio analysis (SWARA) (Dinçer et al, 2022;Keleş et al, 2022;Rani et al (2021), and decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technique Li et al al., 2022;Xie et al, 2021;Zhang and Deng, 2019) are frequently applied. Among these methods, AHP only takes into account the hierarchy structure of the criteria; SWARA only considers the hierarchical priorities of the experts.…”