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China has the most technically utilizable small hydropower around the world. The government have taken the policies of efficiency improvement, capacity expansion, refurbishment and value added to implement the 40% potentials and over 47,000 existing stations. Researching on the sustainability of SHP could provide an approach to determine whether the designed SHP is sustainable and how it can be developed. Therefore, a sustainability evaluation index system with three grade indicators was firstly proposed to illustrate what a sustainable SHP should considered. Then a two-stage comprehensive assessment model was used to solve the multi factorial evaluation problem. Lastly, the sustainability evaluation of eight cascade SHP stations were conducted using the proposed method, and the development subsequence and policy was given according to the calculated ranks.
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This research has been supported by the Research Center for Systems Science & Enterprise Development, Key Research of Social Sciences Base of Sichuan Province (Grant No. Xq17B05), and the Scientific Research Staring Foundation, Chengdu University of Technology (Grant No. 10900-KYQD-10201606691). The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their insightful comments and suggestions to improve this paper.
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Ni, T., Shi, L., Wen, H. (2020). A Two-Stage Fuzzy Comprehensive Assessment Model for Sustainability Evaluation of Small Hydropower. In: Xu, J., Ahmed, S., Cooke, F., Duca, G. (eds) Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. ICMSEM 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1001. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21248-3_39
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