Prioritization of bioethanol production pathways in China based on life cycle sustainability assessment and multicriteria decision-making

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 842-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingzheng Ren ◽  
Alessandro Manzardo ◽  
Anna Mazzi ◽  
Filippo Zuliani ◽  
Antonio Scipioni
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Bioethanol Production ◽  
Multicriteria Decision

Multiactor multicriteria decision making for life cycle sustainability assessment under uncertainties

AIChE Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 2103-2112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingzheng Ren ◽  
Xusheng Ren ◽  
Lichun Dong ◽  
Alessandro Manzardo ◽  
Chang He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Multicriteria Decision

scholarly journals A Multifaceted Challenge to Enhance Multicriteria Decision Support for Energy Policy

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4128
Author(s):  
Magdalena Krysiak ◽  
Aldona Kluczek
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Multicriteria Decision ◽  
Integrated Method ◽  
Macroeconomic Analysis ◽  
Methods Analytical

The necessity to enhance multicriteria decision in the industry is challenging to support the current energy policy. European Union regulations and guidelines provide the guideline for minimalizing environmental harms but are not enough in their actions for providing effective sustainability assessment. None of the available standalone assessment methods do capture the comprehensibility of multicriteria decision-making. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate a challenge to incorporate the multicriteria sustainability decision-making method to mainstream energy policy, which is lacking in European Union policies. The novelty of the research lies in constructing a multicriteria sustainability approach for assessing energy technologies performance for embodying into a mainstream energy policy. In this study, the multicriteria decision-making—an approach combining life cycle-based methods, analytical hierarchy process, as well as macroeconomic analysis, was used to demonstrate the applicability of the method based on three photovoltaic technologies. The results showed that sustainability assessment supported with multicriteria decision allows to better understand analyzed factors influencing the energy technology, contributing to selection of the best sustainability technology according to the realization of an energy policy. It was proved based on a real example of photovoltaics, where string ribbon technology represents the most sustainable along its life cycle, with a 0.503 sustainability score. The study highlighted the challenge to embody the integrated method assessing sustainability-oriented technologies into an energy policy. This challenge regarding example evidence places emphasis on the decision-making process to realize an energy policy and in consequence, to improve enterprise sustainability performance.

scholarly journals Ranking of hydropower projects based on sustainability criteria in India using multicriteria decision making methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-90
Author(s):  
Anuja Shaktawat ◽  
Shelly Vadhera
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Preference Ranking ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Multicriteria Decision ◽  
Promethee Ii ◽  
Sustainability Criteria ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Assessment of hydropower projects with respect to sustainability criteria is a multidimensional and complex issue. It requires considering technical, environmental, and social parameters instead of purely economic ones in decision making for energy planning. The flexibility to consider several criteria and objectives simultaneously leads to the use of multicriteria decision making (MCDM) methods which are well accepted in the field of energy planning. This paper aims at applying MCDM methods in facilitating the decision makers to select the most sustainable hydropower projects in the Indian region by making real and logical choices based on eight important criteria selected from the literature that are compatible with sustainable development. To comprehensively rank hydropower projects three MCDM methods are applied i.e., the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluations (PROMETHEE II), and elimination and choice translating reality (ELECTRE III). Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is used to calculate the weights of criteria. All three methods are well adapted for sustainability assessment and ranked Sharavathi (A9), Bhakra (A2), and Upper Indravati (A13) to be the most sustainable hydropower projects in India under the selected criteria. The study will be helpful in sustainable energy planning of hydropower projects with similar geographical conditions.

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