Overview
- Includes numerous examples for problem solving
- Provides decision makers with a wide range of quantitative tools
- Analyzes multi-criteria decision making methods within the renewable energy sector
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 formulation for fossil fuel substitution by Renewable Energies must be addressed in a multi-criteria context. Multi Criteria Analysis in the Renewable Energy Industry is a direct response to the increasing interest in the Renewable Energy industry which can be seen as an important remedy to many environmental problems that the world faces today. The multiplicity of criteria and the increasingly complex social, economic, technological, and environmental scenario makes multi-criteria analysis a valuable tool in the decision-making process for fossil fuel substitution.
The detailed chapters explore the use of the Multi-criteria decision-making methods and how they provide valuable assistance in reaching equitable and acceptable solutions in the selection of renewable energy projects. Common multi-criteria decision-making methods including Analytical Hierarchy Process, PROMETHEE, ELECTRE, TOPSIS and VIKOR are explored in detail with an application case of each method included at the end of each chapter. As such, Multi Criteria Analysis in the Renewable Energy Industry is an ideal resource for those groups of individuals, institutions and administration such as local authorities, academic institutions, environmental groups, and governments that, through their priorities and evaluation systems, have interests at stake and directly or indirectly influence the decision-making process.
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“The objective of this book is to convey how various multicriteria decision analysis tools can assist decision makers in the renewable energy sector, a sector characterized by increasingly complex social, economic, technological, and environmental issues. … this book would be useful for practitioners who have previous knowledge of the methods being discussed and would provide a good quick reference to the applications literature.” (David Strimling, Interfaces, Vol. 43 (2), March-April, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multi Criteria Analysis in the Renewable Energy Industry
Authors: José Ramón San Cristóbal Mateo
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2346-0
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2345-3Published: 05 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6081-6Published: 22 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-2346-0Published: 03 January 2012
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 106
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Renewable and Green Energy, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science