MCDA and Energy Planning

Danae Diakoulaki (), Carlos Henggeler Antunes () and António Gomes Martins ()
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Danae Diakoulaki: National Technical University of Athens
Carlos Henggeler Antunes: University of Coimbra and INESC Coimbra
António Gomes Martins: University of Coimbra and INESC Coimbra

Chapter Chapter 21 in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys, 2005, pp 859-890 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The growing environmental awareness and the apparent conflict between economic and environmental objectives was the main impetus that pushed energy planners during the early eighties towards the use of MCDA methods. Thereafter, the rapid changes and the increasing complexity of the energy market gave rise to further methodological developments. Although the energy market restructuring and ongoing liberalization seemed to restrict the purpose for centralized energy decisions, they added new dimensions in energy planning. Increasing competition along with the prerequisite for sustainability have broadened the energy application field by bringing out new challenges for the development of integrated multicriteria and multi-stakeholders approaches also taking uncertainty into consideration. This paper aims at illustrating the evolution of MCDA approaches, in the context of the emerging problems faced by energy planners and other stakeholders involved in energy-related decision situations, one of the most active and exciting areas of application of MCDA models and methods.

Keywords: Multicriteria; multiobjective; energy planning; electricity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-23081-5_21

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