Multi Criteria Analysis in the Renewable Energy Industry

• Main Author: San Cristóbal Mateo, José Ramón (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2012.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Renewable energy resources.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Management science.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.

Decision makers in the Renewable Energy sector face an increasingly complex social, economic, technological, and environmental scenario in their decision process. Different groups of decision-makers become involved in the process, each group bringing along different criteria therefore, policy formul...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Renewable Energy industry and the need for a Multi-criteria analysis
• 2. Multi-criteria Analysis
• 3. AHP
• 4.Weighted Sum Method and Weighted Product Method
• 5. PROMETHEE
• 6. ELECTRE
• 7. TOPSIS
• 8. VIKOR
• 9. A Multi-criteria Data Envelopment Analysis
• 10. Multi Attribute Utility theory
• 11. Fuzzy PROMETHEE
• 12. FAHP
• 13. The Shapley value.