An Overview of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods in Dealing with Sustainable Energy Development Issues

Indre Siksnelyte, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Dalia Streimikiene and Deepak Sharma
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Indre Siksnelyte: Institute of Sustainable Construction, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Sauletekio al. 11, Vilnius LT-10223, Lithuania
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas: Institute of Sustainable Construction, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Sauletekio al. 11, Vilnius LT-10223, Lithuania
Dalia Streimikiene: Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics, V. Kudirkos st. 18–2, Vilnius LT-03105, Lithuania
Deepak Sharma: Centre for Energy Policy, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-21

Abstract: The measurement of sustainability is actively used today as one of the main preventative instruments in order to reduce the decline of the environment. Sustainable decision-making in solving energy issues can be supported and contradictory effects can be evaluated by scientific achievements of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. The main goal of this paper is to overview the application of decision-making methods in dealing with sustainable energy development issues. In this study, 105 published papers from the Web of Science Core Collection (WSCC) database are selected and reviewed, from 2004 to 2017, related to energy sustainability issues and MCDM methods. All the selected papers were categorized into 9 fields by the application area and into 10 fields by the used method. After the categorization of the scientific articles and detailed analysis, SWOT analysis of MCDM approaches in dealing with sustainable energy development issues is provided. The widespread application and use of MCDM methods confirm that MCDM methods can help decision-makers in solving energy sustainability problems and are highly popular and used in practice.

Keywords: sustainable energy; sustainability assessment; multi-criteria decision-making; MCDM; MCDM review; renewable energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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