Coupling LCSA and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis for Energy System Prioritization

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-160
Author(s):  
Weichen Li ◽  
Lichun Dong ◽  
Jingzheng Ren ◽  
Ruojue Lin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis

Multi-criteria decision analysis of energy system transformation pathways: A case study for Switzerland

Energy Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 155-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Volkart ◽  
Nicolas Weidmann ◽  
Christian Bauer ◽  
Stefan Hirschberg
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Energy System ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Transformation Pathways

scholarly journals Integrated Multidimensional Sustainability Assessment of Energy System Transformation Pathways

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5217
Author(s):  
Tobias Naegler ◽  
Lisa Becker ◽  
Jens Buchgeister ◽  
Wolfgang Hauser ◽  
Heidi Hottenroth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
System Modeling ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Transformation Pathways

Sustainable development embraces a broad spectrum of social, economic and ecological aspects. Thus, a sustainable transformation process of energy systems is inevitably multidimensional and needs to go beyond climate impact and cost considerations. An approach for an integrated and interdisciplinary sustainability assessment of energy system transformation pathways is presented here. It first integrates energy system modeling with a multidimensional impact assessment that focuses on life cycle-based environmental and macroeconomic impacts. Then, stakeholders’ preferences with respect to defined sustainability indicators are inquired, which are finally integrated into a comparative scenario evaluation through a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), all in one consistent assessment framework. As an illustrative example, this holistic approach is applied to the sustainability assessment of ten different transformation strategies for Germany. Applying multi-criteria decision analysis reveals that both ambitious (80%) and highly ambitious (95%) carbon reduction scenarios can achieve top sustainability ranks, depending on the underlying energy transformation pathways and respective scores in other sustainability dimensions. Furthermore, this research highlights an increasingly dominant contribution of energy systems’ upstream chains on total environmental impacts, reveals rather small differences in macroeconomic effects between different scenarios and identifies the transition among societal segments and climate impact minimization as the most important stakeholder preferences.

scholarly journals Multi-Criteria Framework for Selection of City-Wide Sanitation Solutions in Coastal Towns in Northern Angola

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5627
Author(s):  
Rita Ventura Matos ◽  
Filipa Ferreira ◽  
Liliana Alves ◽  
Elsa Ramos ◽  
Lucrécio Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Decision Aiding ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Treatment Alternatives

In this paper, an expedited multi-criteria decision analysis framework, capable of tackling several dimensions for the choice of sanitation services, at an early planning stage is presented. The approach combines geographic information systems aided analysis for onsite solutions, with a multi-criteria decision analysis tool capable of suggesting and ranking several viable offsite treatment alternatives, according to the desired criteria. The framework was applied to four coastal cities in Northern Angola, one of the sub-Saharan countries of the west coast of Africa, thus obtaining an indication for city-wide solutions, as an aid to achieve the goal of ensuring full sanitation coverage in those four locations. It included possible onsite collection and storage interfaces, namely Ventilated Improved Pit latrines, fossa alterna, septic tanks or conventional sewer systems. The study also contributed to an informed decision regarding optimal offsite treatment facility type, namely based on dedicated or combined wastewater and faecal sludge treatment (co-treatment), as well as different options for locations and sanitation technologies. Alternatives were compared and ranked according to ten main criteria concerning social, economic, technological and environmental aspects. This work helped demonstrate the usefulness of decision-aiding tools in the multi-stakeholder and complex context of sanitation in a developing country.

scholarly journals An Innovative Grey Approach for Group Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Based on the Median of Ratings by Using Python

Axioms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Dragiša Stanujkić ◽  
Darjan Karabašević ◽  
Gabrijela Popović ◽  
Predrag S. Stanimirović ◽  
Florentin Smarandache ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Interval Numbers ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis

Some decision-making problems, i.e., multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) problems, require taking into account the attitudes of a large number of decision-makers and/or respondents. Therefore, an approach to the transformation of crisp ratings, collected from respondents, in grey interval numbers form based on the median of collected scores, i.e., ratings, is considered in this article. In this way, the simplicity of collecting respondents’ attitudes using crisp values, i.e., by applying some form of Likert scale, is combined with the advantages that can be achieved by using grey interval numbers. In this way, a grey extension of MCDA methods is obtained. The application of the proposed approach was considered in the example of evaluating the websites of tourism organizations by using several MCDA methods. Additionally, an analysis of the application of the proposed approach in the case of a large number of respondents, done in Python, is presented. The advantages of the proposed method, as well as its possible limitations, are summarized.

Multi-criteria decision analysis of agri-food waste as a feedstock for biopolymer production

2021 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 105671
Author(s):  
I. Bolaji ◽  
B. Nejad ◽  
M. Billham ◽  
N. Mehta ◽  
B. Smyth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for user satisfaction-induced demand-side load management for an institutional building

2021 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 1396-1426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan ◽  
S. Leoponraj ◽  
J. Vishnupriyan ◽  
A. Dheeraj ◽  
G. Gangaram Sundar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Analysis ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Load Management ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Induced Demand ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Side Load
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