A new decision model based on DEA and simulation to evaluate renewable energy projects under interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy uncertainty

Reza Davoudabadi, Seyed Meysam Mousavi and Vahid Mohagheghi

Renewable Energy, 2021, vol. 164, issue C, 1588-1601

Abstract: Energy plays a vital role in the development and well-being of any country. Finding the right energy projects and investing in them could lead to improving the overall condition of nations. Despite the importance of evaluation of energy projects, several factors complicate this issue. The efficiency of projects, reliability of assessments and uncertainty are some of the major issues in energy project evaluation. To simultaneously address all of these essential issues, this paper presents a new approach in renewable energy project evaluation based on the concepts of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and fuzzy simulation of interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs). The concept of DEA is developed, and a new approach based on introducing a new simulation method for IVIFSs is presented. Moreover, the approach is the last aggregation that avoids information loss. To illustrate the process of this approach, a case study from the literature is adopted and solved. A sensitivity analysis is carried out, and the results are displayed.

Keywords: Renewable energy projects; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Fuzzy simulation; Interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFSs); Group decision analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.09.089

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