Multicriteria/multi-stakeholders comparative assessment of electricity generation scenarios in the sustainability context: a Swiss case study

P.-A. Haldi, Ch. Frei, L. Beurskens and N. Zhuikova

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2002, vol. 5, issue 1/2, 102-124

Abstract: In this study, nine different electricity generation scenarios have been compared from a sustainability standpoint using an appropriate MCDA (Multicriteria Decision Aid) method. These scenarios consist of selected combinations of generation technologies and policy measures. A set of eleven criteria has been established to evaluate the performances of the scenarios along the three main "axes" of sustainability economy, ecology and society. A group of ten stakeholder representatives was formed to accompany the study. They participated in the scenario selection, the criteria definition and the fixing of their relative importance. For this last – always critical – process, a new approach has been devised and tested successfully. The results of the study show that the members of the accompanying stakeholder group privilege the scenario promoting (in a limited way) the use of renewable energies, with accompanying demand-side management measures and no anticipated retirement of the existing nuclear power.

Keywords: electricity generating scenarios; multicriteria decision aid; multicriteria/multi-stakeholders approach; sustainability assessment; Swiss electric sector planning; Switzerland. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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