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Photovoltaic Plants Selection on an Insular Grid Using Multicriteria Outranking Tools: Application in Corsica Island (France)

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Assessment and Simulation Tools for Sustainable Energy Systems

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Sustainable energy systems involve a multiplicity of stakes more or less conflicting. Multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) offers a broad methodological framework in which the ELECTRE-based outranking approach is suitable for searching good compromise solutions. Particularly, the RUBIS methodology offers new tools that we have used successfully for photovoltaic (PV) plants selection aid in Corsica island, a real case study from a research agreement between the University of Corsica and the Agriculture Chamber of the Haute-Corse department. This chapter will focus on the following points: outranking approaches and the choice problematic in MCDA, the RUBIS method and the RUBIS D3 web server, the insular power grid of Corsica and the studied case, the main results and their robustness, a comparison with the ELECTRE IS method.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Called kernel within the ELECTRE IS method and hyperkernel within the RUBIS method.

  2. 2.

    http://www.inescc.pt/~ewgmcda/Software.html; http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/

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    www.decision-deck.org

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    The ultimate recommendation does not necessarily have to be reached in one step.

  5. 5.

    At a given moment, only limited financial or temporal resources may be available.

  6. 6.

    Elicitation of decision maker’s preferences and final recommendations are constructed via small steps.

  7. 7.

    Each criterion and discrimination threshold (indifference, preference) can take their values out of \( [0, 1] \); each veto threshold (weak, strong) can take its values out of \( \left[ {0, 1} \right]\mathop \cup \nolimits \,\{ 2\} \). Each evaluation criterion can be to maximize or to minimize.

  8. 8.

    www.decision-deck.org

  9. 9.

    http://www.decision-deck.org/xmcda/index.html

  10. 10.

    http://www.decision-deck.org/xmcda/current.html

  11. 11.

    Namely: Oletta, Taglio, Cervione and Ghisonaccia.

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    Pascal Oberti

  2. UMR CNRS 6134 SPE, Université de Corse Pasquale Paoli, Route des Sanguinaires, 20000, Ajaccio, France

    Marc Muselli &  Pierrick Haurant

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Oberti, P., Muselli, M., Haurant, . (2013). Photovoltaic Plants Selection on an Insular Grid Using Multicriteria Outranking Tools: Application in Corsica Island (France). In: Cavallaro, F. (eds) Assessment and Simulation Tools for Sustainable Energy Systems. Green Energy and Technology, vol 129. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5143-2_2

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