Selection of the Most Appropriate Regions for Wood Fuel based Cogeneration Plants using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Methods
International Journal of Energy 2010
Anna Volkova, Eduard Latosov, Andres Siirde

Multi-criteria decision analysis is used both for location problems and for energy problems. For successful involving of wood-fired cogeneration in Estonia it is important to define the most appropriate region, where the wood-fuel cogeneration plants can be located. The method used for defining the optimal location is based on the multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), which includes the Delphi method for criteria selection, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method as weighting method and the elementary weighted sum method (WSM) for the final decision defining. In the result the most appropriate county in Estonia for wood-fuel based cogeneration plant installation was defined.


Keywords
AHP, Cogeneration, Multi-criteria decision analysis, Renewable energy, Wood fuel

Volkova, A., Latosov, E., Siirde, A. Selection of the Most Appropriate Regions for Wood Fuel based Cogeneration Plants using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Methods. International Journal of Energy, 2010, No. 4, pp.29-36. ISSN 1998-4316.

Publication language
English (en)
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