AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCE AND PLANT LOCATION SELECTION

Renewable energy resources ranking, and power plant location selection are multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems. These problems can be solved as two-phase tasks separately sequentially or, in a unified form, single-step task. In this paper, we studying the efficiency applicability of approach based on fuzzy Z-information, TOPSIS technique. Alternatives for generated renewables available country potential geographical locations these resources. Considering importance weights MCDM multiplicity approaches to criteria weighting, subjective, objective, AHP-based, combination subjective objective used decision matrix weighting. Comparative analysis solutions, various weights, allows making reliable solution. The results study problem solution confirm combined approach. advantage single step is that approach, addition main task, provides decision-maker additional information about preferable next best renewable option well. Keywords: selection, decision, weights. JEL Classifications: D81, P48, Q35, Q42 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.10880