Multicriteria ranking of alternative locations for small scale hydro plants
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Multicriteria ranking of alternative locations for small scale hydro plants
zbMATH Open document ID: 0615.90075
DOI: 10.1016/0377-2217(87)90025-7
author: B. Mareschal
author: Nenad Mladineo
author: Jure Margeta
author: J. P. Brans
published in: European Journal of Operational Research
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: Since energy consumption and its costs have recently rapidly increased, 'small scale' hydroplants (HP) are being widely used as energy sources. Our objective is to deal with the problem of small HP construction in a wide area covering many regions. The problem is to select some locations for each region by using the same methodology in order to make the unit costs as low as possible. When considering this problem, besides economical criteria, some other criteria must also be taken into account, such as technical, social, environmental etc. Multicriteria analysis is a quite realistic approach to such a complex problem which includes, among the others, some conflicting criteria. We have found that the PROMETHEE method is well adapted to this problem, since its flexibility enables the decision maker to express precisely his preferences and stable results can be easily obtained by a sensitivity analysis. In this paper the problem is formulated, the criteria are estimated and quantified, and location planning is obtained by using the PROMETHEE methodoloy. The obtained solutions are discussed and the computational results are given.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B05
zbMATH DE Number: 3997553
zbMATH Keywords: energy
zbMATH Keywords: hydroplants
zbMATH Keywords: Multicriteria analysis
zbMATH Keywords: PROMETHEE
zbMATH Keywords: location planning
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0377-2217(87)90025-7
OpenAlex ID: W2064650366
cites work: Q3688086
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3997553