Multi-criteria Decision Making Methods and sustainable Appliations in the Digital Age

Abstract: Designing a sustainable electrification system for remote places in developing countries is very complex while considering various factors such as technical, economic, environmental and social (TEES). Development of an efficient, rational, coherent and a translucent framework is required to address issues related to the requirement of energy needs based on the end user. The main goal of this research is to design a methodological framework based on decision analysis and optimized model with locally available energy sources. The new optimal renewable energy options are required to be used to minimize the fossil fuel dependency of electrical generation. Initially, suitable energy alternatives are selected by considering different criterion with multiple scenarios for decision analysis. The further optimal combination of energy sources evaluated for different possibilities. The new methodology of hybrid renewable optimization is applied to a rural place, Himachal Pradesh to illustrate its effectiveness based on metrological data