Energy scenarios for the Faroe Islands: A MCDA methodology including local social perspectives
Planning for the decarbonisation of island energy systems is both crucial and fraught with complexities. The process to develop and evaluate these plans needs to encompass not only technical and economic specifics but each plan's impacts on the environment and local inhabitants must also be con...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:9551ba929fb84c1a954c04f729cf8e19 2023-05-15T16:10:31+02:00 Energy scenarios for the Faroe Islands: A MCDA methodology including local social perspectives Andrew Barney Uni Reinert Petersen Heracles Polatidis 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2022.100092 https://doaj.org/article/9551ba929fb84c1a954c04f729cf8e19 EN eng Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188822000260 https://doaj.org/toc/2666-1888 2666-1888 doi:10.1016/j.sftr.2022.100092 https://doaj.org/article/9551ba929fb84c1a954c04f729cf8e19 Sustainable Futures, Vol 4, Iss , Pp 100092- (2022) Energy planning Faroe Islands Decarbonization EnergyPLAN MCDA PROMETHEE II Environmental sciences GE1-350 Technology T article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2022.100092 2022-12-30T20:10:12Z Planning for the decarbonisation of island energy systems is both crucial and fraught with complexities. The process to develop and evaluate these plans needs to encompass not only technical and economic specifics but each plan's impacts on the environment and local inhabitants must also be considered. This inclusive planning involves multiple criteria and requires a means of handling them. In this paper a series of potential future energy systems are generated with the EnergyPlan software for the Faroe Islands before these systems are assessed using a set of criteria covering their environmental, social, technical and economic aspects. These criteria are used by two multi-criteria approaches, along with actual weights obtained from local stakeholders, to rank the energy systems. It is found that there is a clear shift in rankings towards systems employing offshore technologies due to the inclusion of social criteria specifically fitted to the Islands’ resident's preferences. This shift, however, was not sufficient for these offshore scenarios to outperform other scenarios that performed well on the other criteria. These findings indicate there is likely value in terms of local acceptance for transition planning on the Islands in adjusting to include greater quantities of offshore technologies in future energy strategies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroe Islands Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Faroe Islands Sustainable Futures 4 100092 |
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Planning for the decarbonisation of island energy systems is both crucial and fraught with complexities. The process to develop and evaluate these plans needs to encompass not only technical and economic specifics but each plan's impacts on the environment and local inhabitants must also be considered. This inclusive planning involves multiple criteria and requires a means of handling them. In this paper a series of potential future energy systems are generated with the EnergyPlan software for the Faroe Islands before these systems are assessed using a set of criteria covering their environmental, social, technical and economic aspects. These criteria are used by two multi-criteria approaches, along with actual weights obtained from local stakeholders, to rank the energy systems. It is found that there is a clear shift in rankings towards systems employing offshore technologies due to the inclusion of social criteria specifically fitted to the Islands’ resident's preferences. This shift, however, was not sufficient for these offshore scenarios to outperform other scenarios that performed well on the other criteria. These findings indicate there is likely value in terms of local acceptance for transition planning on the Islands in adjusting to include greater quantities of offshore technologies in future energy strategies. |
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Energy scenarios for the Faroe Islands: A MCDA methodology including local social perspectives |
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Energy scenarios for the Faroe Islands: A MCDA methodology including local social perspectives |
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Energy scenarios for the Faroe Islands: A MCDA methodology including local social perspectives |
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