Design of coordinated energy and environmental policies: use of multi-criteria decision-making

Greening, Lorna A.; Bernow, Stephen

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2003.08.017

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“…(Greening and Bernow, 2004). One of the best and most reliable, wellknown and great procedures and techniques is the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) found and established by Saaty (1980).…”

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Evaluating Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Utilization of Renewable Energy Sources in Iran

Falaki¹,

Zohoori²

2016

IJSEA

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Abstract:Renewable energy sources is a quickly spreading field which has changed significantly over recent years. Besides advancement in technologies of renewable energy sources lead to the production of clean energy in a wide scale. Furthermore, renewables can be an origin of jobs and economically origin of energy. On the other words, nowadays, fossil fuels are the principal energy sources in which electricity is obtained. However, these sources will not last forevermore, and thus in due course renewable energies will have to sub them in this role. All kinds of energy sources have some negative effects on our environment. Fossil fuelscoal, oil, and natural gas -are considerably more detrimental than renewable energy sources by most measures, including pollution of water and air, public health damage, loss of habitat and wildlife, water usage, land utilization, and global warming emissions. Besides regarding social impacts of utilization of renewables is job creation, economics, health, and oil dependence. The goal of this article is to examine and evaluate impacts of utilization of renewable energy sources on socio-economic and environmental status which are able of being renewed if consume properly with the aim of choosing suitable and passable resources of energy as for achieving various policy's intentions and purposes in Iran. On the other hand, this research highlights social, economic and environmental impacts of these resources and after that proposes an appropriate techniques to rank them.

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“…There are a great amount of complex logical methods to be utilized in order to quest for the most desirable response for multi-purpose obstacles (Greening and Bernow, 2004). One of the most markedly and excellently used methods and procedures is the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) found and established by Saaty (1980).…”

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Evaluating Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Utilization of Renewable Energy Sources in Iran

Falaki¹,

Zohoori²

2016

IJSEA

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“…In particular, these methods have been applied to a wide range of electricity sector issues, such as for environmental assessment [12] , for the prioritisation of environmental projects [13] and for electricity planning [14] . In the scientific literature (and in reality) there are many applications of MCDM method in different decision making problems [15,16,17] . Multi-criteria analysis has been used in order to select preferable options among multi-attribute discrete alternatives, which is the case for this particular problem.…”

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A Decision Support Approach for the Sustainable Transfer of Energy Technologies under the Kyoto Protocol

Karakosta¹,

Doukas²

2008

American J. of Applied Sciences

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Theoretically, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was introduced in the Kyoto Protocol at COP-3 in December 1997 and has officially been operational since the year 2000, in order to assist the technology transfer of sustainable energy technologies from developed to developing countries so as to support the sustainable development of the host countries. Under the CDM, sustainable development is considered a country context-specific aspect which differs across countries. Actual CDM practice has shown that projects are largely initiated by the demand for relatively lowcost certified emission reductions, leading to a series of ad-hoc projects, rather than serving the overall host countries' sustainable development needs and priorities. Indeed, it remains to be seen how important the mechanism can be in terms of stimulating the sustainable transfer of energy technologies to developing countries. This study, a part of which is based on research conducted within the FP6 ENTTRANS project, aims to present a collective and transparent approach towards the sustainable technology transfer through the CDM, based on the active involvement of the related stakeholders in five developing countries, namely China, Chile, Israel, Kenya and Thailand. Specifically, the adopted approach uses an existing Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method, giving emphasis on the formulation of the process so as to be relatively straightforward to incorporate direct stakeholders' preferences. The approach aims to facilitate decision makers to put on the map the most suitable sustainable energy technologies to transfer to these specific developing countries and support these host countries' DNAs-Designated National Authorities in building the capacity to explore CDM projects contribution to the related sustainable development needs and priorities.

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“…Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methods, which form one type of decision analysis methods, have been widely applied to analyze and formulate energy and environmental policies (Greening and Bernow 2004). Pohekar and Ramachandran (2004) reviewed more than 90 MCDM studies in sustainable energy planning.…”

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A multicriteria approach to evaluate offshore wind farms siting in Greece

2013

Issue 2

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Wind energy offers significant potential for greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Most applications have been developed onshore but the planning and siting conflicts with other land uses have created considerable interest and motivated research to offshore wind energy establishments. In this paper, a systematic methodology in order to investigate the most efficient areas of offshore wind farms' siting in Greece is performed, integrating multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools. In the first level of analysis, all coastal areas that don't fulfill a certain set of criteria (wind velocity, protected areas, water depth) are identified with the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and excluded from further analysis. The Analytical Hierarchy Process is performed in the evaluation phase and pairwise comparisons provide the most appropriate sites to locate offshore wind farms. Information concerning evaluation criteria (average wind velocity, distance to protected areas, distance to ship routes, distance to the shore and distance of possible connection to the existing electricity network) is retrieved through GIS, eliminating the subjectivity in judgments. The whole methodology contributes to the portrait of the geographic analysis and stands as the last image of the space characteristics suitable for offshore wind farms. KEYWORDS:Analytical Hierarchy Process, Geographical Information Systems, offshore establishments, pairwise comparisons, renewable energy resources. INTRODUCTIONAdoption of renewable energy technologies and promotion of green energy have internationally been recognized as a way towards independency from fuel oils. Green energy is provided by the natural environment and one of the most widely exploited and rapidly evolved types of renewable energy is the wind energy. Onshore wind energy technology is more mature than offshore, but nowadays, there is a considerable trend to the establishment of offshore wind farms. Although offshore wind farms present higher investment, operational and maintenance cost, the significant offshore wind resource potential, the higher quality wind resources located at sea, the ability to use even larger wind turbines due to avoidance of certain land and the ability of construction of even larger power plants than onshore, as there is no geographical "limit", form the primary motivations of developing offshore wind energy.

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Design of coordinated energy and environmental policies: use of multi-criteria decision-making

Cited by 252 publications

References 74 publications

Evaluating Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Utilization of Renewable Energy Sources in Iran

Evaluating Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Utilization of Renewable Energy Sources in Iran

A Decision Support Approach for the Sustainable Transfer of Energy Technologies under the Kyoto Protocol

A multicriteria approach to evaluate offshore wind farms siting in Greece

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