Abstract:
research aims to select the optimum green energy sources for sustainable planning from a given
set of alternatives. The study presents an integrated multi-criteria decision-making analysis—the
entropy-technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS)—to evaluate the
energy sources: coal, oil, gas, carbon capture; and storage: nuclear fission/power, large hydro, small
hydro, wind, solar photovoltaic, concentrating solar, geothermal, and biomass. Information related to
energy parameters are always imprecise; thus, to address the impreciseness of eliciting judgments in
the preferences of criteria, the entropy method is used. TOPSIS method is then utilized to select the
optimum sources. Results show that solar-photovoltaic is the optimum green energy source having
the highest score value, and annual generation is the most prioritized criterion. Sensitivity analysis
also demonstrates the robustness of the selection methodology.
