Selection of renewable energy sources for sustainable development of electricity generation system using analytic hierarchy process: A case of Malaysia

Ahmad, Salman; Tahar, Razman Mat

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2013.10.001

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“…A review of WtE technologies is performed to gather data and determine suitable evaluation criteria for both India and the UK. The criteria considered encompass a range of financial, technological, environmental and economic factors, and are comparable to those used in similar technology evaluation studies (Hokkanen and Salminen, 1997;Aravossis, et al, 2001;Nixon, et al, 2013b;Stein, 2013;and Ahmad and Tahar, 2014).…”

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A multi-criteria analysis of options for energy recovery from municipal solid waste in India and the UK

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Energy recovery from municipal solid waste plays a key role in sustainable waste management and energy security. However, there are numerous technologies that vary in suitability for different economic and social climates. This study sets out to develop and apply a multi-criteria decision making methodology that can be used to evaluate the trade-offs between the benefits, opportunities, costs and risks of alternative energy from waste technologies in both developed and developing countries. The technologies considered are mass burn incineration, refuse derived fuel incineration, gasification, anaerobic digestion and landfill gas recovery. By incorporating qualitative and quantitative assessments, a preference ranking of the alternative technologies is produced. The effect of variations in decision criteria weightings are analysed in a sensitivity analysis. The methodology is applied principally to compare and assess energy recovery from waste options in the UK and India. These two countries have been selected as they could both benefit from further development of their waste-to-energy strategies, but have different technical and socio-economic challenges to consider. It is concluded that gasification is the preferred technology for the UK, whereas anaerobic digestion is the preferred technology for India. We believe that the presented methodology will be of particular value for waste-to-energy decision-makers in both developed and developing countries.

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A multi-criteria analysis of options for energy recovery from municipal solid waste in India and the UK

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“…San Cristóbal [22] proposed a model that considers power, investment ratio, implementation period, operating hour, useful life, operation & maintenance costs, tons of CO2 avoided factors for selection of suitable renewable energy based generating units in Spain. In the recent work of Ahmad and Tahar [28], they divided their sub-criteria under the major criteria of technical, economical, social, and environmental. Kahraman et al [29] divided their sub-criteria for the RESs planning into four such as technological, environmental, socio-political, and economic criteria.…”

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“…Selection of the suitable alternative depends on the comparison between the different alternatives on each criterion. Multiple authors used AHP method for the renewable energy planning projects [13,28,29,33]. Other kinds of decision-making methods used in renewable energy investment projects are Fuzzy programming to evaluate the selection of renewable energy alternatives [29,34], Decision Support Systems based on fuzzy decision support model for the energy-economy planning [31,35], a methodology of Geo-spatial multi-criteria analysis used to set up the wave energy farm [36], and a linear programming optimisation methodology in the form of energy flow optimisation model (EFOM) is used for the regional energy planning with RESs and environmental constraints [37].…”

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“…Ş engül et al [5] identified that hydro power source is the best source for the country Turkey, depending on regional potential and importance hydro power efficiency may vary with locations or some other alternative can be perfect in different location. Ahmad and Tahar [28] considered a list of alternatives of RESs to select the best alternative of RES for the country Malaysia. Kahraman et al [29] identified that wind energy source is a perfect source of energy in Turkey which will differ in installation regions and their local managerial challenges.…”

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Selection of Best Renewable Energy Source by Using VIKOR Method

Kumar

Samuel

2017

Technol Econ Smart Grids Sustain Energy

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The increasing global demand for the sustainable development of electricity sectors increased the contribution of renewable energy sources (RESs). RESs give the flexibility to install generation units at demand areas and reduce transmission and distribution losses. Selection of appropriate RES is more strategic and decisive area. This is a complex multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem of having uncertain and conflicting factors. In this work, we used the recently developed MCDM technique VIKOR method to choose best appropriate RES alternative for installation at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) campus, India. The advantage of VIKOR method is to have a solution closest to the ideal solution having an acceptable compromise of conflicting and non-commensurable criteria. For assigning weights to the different criteria, we used analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The importance of different criteria has been assigned by decision-makers based on their preferences. The result shows that the wind turbine option is the best choice for the case of BHU campus.

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“…The aim of these models is to understand and analyse the complexity surrounding the energy issue so that not only resources are managed efficiently but also demand is met adequately with minimal damage to environment. These models come from disciplines like economics [2,3], operational research [4,5,6], and social sciences [7,8]. Jebaraj and Iniyan [9] reviewed energy models in the literature, and grouped them as follows: energy planning, energy supply-demand, forecasting, optimization, neural networks and fuzzy theory based ones.…”

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Application of system dynamics approach in electricity sector modelling: A review

Ahmad

Tahar

Muhammad‐Sukki

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Selection of renewable energy sources for sustainable development of electricity generation system using analytic hierarchy process: A case of Malaysia

Cited by 450 publications

References 49 publications

A multi-criteria analysis of options for energy recovery from municipal solid waste in India and the UK

A multi-criteria analysis of options for energy recovery from municipal solid waste in India and the UK

Selection of Best Renewable Energy Source by Using VIKOR Method

Application of system dynamics approach in electricity sector modelling: A review

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