Finding the most sustainable wind farm sites with a hierarchical outranking decision aiding method

This paper considers the problem of finding suitable sites for wind farms in a region of Catalonia (Spain). The evaluation criteria are structured into a hierarchy that identifies several intermediate sub-goals dealing with different points of view. Therefore, the recent ELECTRE-III-H hierarchical m...

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Vydané v:Annals of operations research Ročník 312; číslo 2; s. 1307 - 1335
Hlavní autori: Afsordegan, Arayeh, Del Vasto-Terrientes, Luis, Valls, Aida, Agell, Núria, Sánchez, Mónica
Médium: Journal Article Publikácia
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: New York Springer US 01.05.2022
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Springer Nature B.V
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90 Operations research, mathematical programming
90B Operations research and management science
90C Mathematical programming
Alternative energy sources
Buildings and facilities
Business and Management
Case studies
Classificació AMS
Climate change
Combinatorics
Decision analysis
Decision making
Decision support systems
ELECTRE
Energy resources
Global warming
Hierarchical assessment
Investigació operativa
Matemàtiques i estadística
Mcdm-Sd
Methods
Multi-criteria decision aid
Multiple criterion
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Programació (Matemàtica)
Programming (Mathematics)
Renewable resources
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Sustainable energy
Theory of Computation
Thresholds
Wind farm location
Wind farms
Wind power
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC
Spain
Catalonia Spain
ELECTRE
Multi-criteria decision aid
Hierarchical assessment
Sustainable energy
Wind farm location
ISSN:0254-5330, 1572-9338
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Shrnutí:This paper considers the problem of finding suitable sites for wind farms in a region of Catalonia (Spain). The evaluation criteria are structured into a hierarchy that identifies several intermediate sub-goals dealing with different points of view. Therefore, the recent ELECTRE-III-H hierarchical multi-criteria analysis method is proposed as a good solution to help decision-makers. This method establishes an order among the set of possible sites for the wind farms for each sub-goal. ELECTRE-III-H aggregates these orders into an overall order using different parameters. The procedure is based on the construction and exploitation of a pairwise outranking relation, following the principles of concordance (i.e. majority rule) and discordance (i.e. respect for the minority opinions). This paper makes two main contributions. First, it contributes to the ELECTRE-III-H method by studying its mathematical properties for the construction of outranking relations. Second, the case study is solved and its results show that we can effectively represent and manage the overall influence of the various criteria on the global result at different levels of the hierarchy. The paper compares different scenarios with strict, normal, and optimistic preference, indifference and veto thresholds. Results show that the best site differs for technical, economic, environmental, and social intermediate criteria. Therefore, the best overall solution changes depending on the preference and veto thresholds fixed at the intermediate level of the hierarchy.
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ISSN:0254-5330
1572-9338
DOI:10.1007/s10479-017-2590-4