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Sustainability assessment of renewable electricity generation technologies
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2013 |
Economic, technological, social, and political developments stressed the need for shifts in energy–mix. Therefore it is important to provide a rationale for sustainable decision making in energy policy. The aim of this paper is to develop the multi–criteria decision support framework for choosing the most sustainable renewable electricity production technologies. The multi–criteria decision method TOPSIS was employed for the analysis. The indicator system covering different approaches of sustainability was established. The analysis proved that the future energy policy should be oriented towards the sustainable renewable electricity generation technologies, namely water and solar thermal ones. It is the proposed multi–criteria assessment framework that can constitute a basis for further sub-regional optimization of sustainable energy policy.