Sustainable energy transition readiness: A multicriteria assessment index

Neofytou, Hera; Νίκας, Αλέξανδρος; Doukas, Haris

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2020.109988

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“…One of the most commonly used MCDM methods is the PROMETHEE II method [40], and after careful consideration of various research approaches, keeping in mind the research problem specifics, we selected this method. Namely, taking into account that it enables ranking of alternatives according to all observed criteria, it is widely used in the analysis of any aspect of sustainability as a multidimensional concept [41][42][43][44][45]. Also, the decision on usage this method is made based on its advantages.…”

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Evaluation of Sustainable Energy Development Progress in EU Member States in the Context of Building Renovation

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The main goal of setting energy efficiency priorities is to find ways to reduce energy consumption without harming consumers and the environment. The renovation of buildings can be considered one of the main aspects of energy efficiency in the European Union (EU). In the EU, only 5% of the renovation projects have been able to yield energy-saving at the deep renovation level. No other study has thus far ranked the EU member states according to achieved results in terms of increased usage in renewable sources, a decrease in energy usage and import, and reduction in harmful gas emissions due to energy usage. The main purpose of this article is to perform a comparative analysis of EU economies according to selected indicators related to the usage of renewable resources, energy efficiency, and emissions of harmful gasses as a result of energy usage. The methodological contribution of our study is related to developing a complex and robust research method for investment efficiency assessment allowing the study of three groups of indicators related to the usage of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, and ecological aspects of energy. It was based on the PROMETHEE II method and allows testing it in other time periods, as well as modifying it for research purposes. The EU member states were categorized by such criteria as energy from renewables and biofuels, final energy consumption from renewables and biofuels, gross electricity generation from renewables and biofuels and import dependency, and usage of renewables and biofuels for heating and cooling. The results of energy per unit of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Greenhouse gasses (GHG) emissions per million inhabitants (ECO2), energy per capita, the share of CO2 emissions from public electricity, and heat production from total CO2 emissions revealed that Latvia, Sweden, Portugal, Croatia, Austria, Lithuania, Romania, Denmark, and Finland are the nine most advanced countries in the area under consideration. In the group of the most advanced countries, energy consumption from renewables and biofuels is higher than the EU average.

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Evaluation of Sustainable Energy Development Progress in EU Member States in the Context of Building Renovation

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“…There are studies that assess countries with different levels of sustainable development to identify priority areas and to draw recommendations for policymakers to improve green technologies in terms of effectiveness [27]. These studies may present a variety of global indexes and provide an opportunity to compare the sustainability directions of different countries.…”

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Green Technology and Sustainable Development: Assessment and Green Growth Frameworks

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The aim of this study is to investigate the characteristics of a sustainable development assessment methodology being designed in the context of green technology. The methodology in question is based on indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals Index (SGDI), specifically in its ecological component. These indicators underlie an Averaging Sustainable Development Index (АSDI) and a Normalized Sustainable Development Index (NSDI). The resultant methodology was applied to 20 countries from the SDGI ranking. According to the research results, the intensive activity of the brown industries in the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, the United States, Korea, and Russia resulted in significant carbon dioxide emissions. Switzerland, Kazakhstan, and Russia had high scores on sustainable management of water and sanitation. Russia was the only developed country to have an АSDI higher than its SDGI and its gap between NSDI and АSDI indexes was not significant, indicating a positive trend in greentech development. The reason why NSDI was increasingly different from SDGI was that countries leading the socio-economic rankings had higher consumption of energy and resources, and a much greater environmental footprint than those countries that consumed less. The originality of this study is that it identifies gaps between NSDI and ASDI values, which indicate that conditions for greentech adoption in most developing countries are unfavorable.

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“…The authors applied PROMETHEE II as a preference model and provided a ranking of the considered countries for the period 2004-2014 and two shorter periods, being 2004-2009 and 2010-2014, respectively. Analogously, PROMETHEE II has been used to assess the sustainable energy transition readiness level of 14 countries belonging to all continents by [40]. 8 indicators have been considered in the study and AHP has been used to get the weights of indicators necessary to apply the PROMETHEE II method, which is admittedly not a correct combination [48].…”

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The hierarchical SMAA-PROMETHEE method applied to assess the sustainability of European cities

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Measuring the level of sustainability taking into account many contributing aspects is a challenge. In this paper, we apply a multiple criteria decision aiding framework, namely, the hierarchical-SMAA-PROMETHEE method, to assess the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of 20 European cities in the period going from 2012 to 2015. The application of the method is innovative for the following reasons: (i) it permits to study the sustainability of the mentioned cities not only comprehensively but also considering separately particular macro-criteria, providing in this way more specific information on their weak and strong points; (ii) the use of PROMETHEE and, in particular, of PROMETHEE II, avoids the compensation between different and heterogeneous criteria, that is arbitrarily assumed in value function aggregation models; finally, (iii) thanks to the application of the Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis, the method provides more robust recommendations than a method based on a single instance of the considered preference model compatible with few preference information items provided by the Decision Maker.

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Sustainable energy transition readiness: A multicriteria assessment index

Cited by 149 publications

References 127 publications

Evaluation of Sustainable Energy Development Progress in EU Member States in the Context of Building Renovation

Evaluation of Sustainable Energy Development Progress in EU Member States in the Context of Building Renovation

Green Technology and Sustainable Development: Assessment and Green Growth Frameworks

The hierarchical SMAA-PROMETHEE method applied to assess the sustainability of European cities

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